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My London constituency in Hackney has one of the highest levels of gun crime in

the country. But the problem is no longer confined to inner city areas. Gun crime has spread to communities all over Britain. Diane Abbott Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day. Anjelica Huston Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Desiderius Erasmus Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. Keith Hernandez The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. Ludwig von Mises Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I

can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it. Tom Hanks It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading. Mary Archer Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! Orson Welles If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Henry David Thoreau Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas Haig Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. William James Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go. Natalie Goldberg

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact

that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind. Joel Madden I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. Marcus Tullius Cicero Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease. Peter Latham Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle The best thing we can do is develop our own. Tom Hicks It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler. Owen Hart

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth

from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. Chuck Palahniuk Hell is empty and all the devils are here. William Shakespeare Games lubricate the body and the mind. Benjamin Franklin Strong convictions precede great actions. James Freeman Clarke Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. Hosea Ballou Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline. Mark Kirk Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Benjamin Disraeli

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting

that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields. Joe Barton There'll be no oiling up with this band. The oil has been there for years and it only gets better. Clarence Clemons Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. Hubert H. Humphrey Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. Carl von Clausewitz I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LeBron James The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. Lyndon B. Johnson Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms

of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much! Graham Norton Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want? George Gershwin Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor Hugo Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route. Francois de La Rochefoucauld The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. Robert Louis Stevenson Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things. Bryant H. McGill

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we

are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. Helen Keller Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. Xenophon I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. Isoroku Yamamoto Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. Alexander Pope The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken I want to move people. John Legend A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. Francis Bacon

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a

tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. Friedrich August von Hayek If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one. Jessamyn West I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing. Robert Evans Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. Michael Jordan An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. W. Somerset Maugham You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me. Jon Bon Jovi I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin. Jessica Biel

I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was

in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry. Kenneth Koch I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. Charles de Montesquieu We know little of the things for which we pray. Geoffrey Chaucer Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law. Marcus Tullius Cicero Yeah sure, I'd love to have all my movies on DVD. Jerry Bruckheimer I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours. John Hope It's nice when they say I inspire them, it inspires me. Lita Ford

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be

acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. Tim Roth Families are about love overcoming emotional torture. Matt Groening Young people want you to be real with them. Magic Johnson Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. Igor Stravinsky When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. W. Somerset Maugham If the heavens throw you dates, you got to keep your mouth open. Navjot Singh Sidhu

I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on

to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real. Vanilla Ice A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. Robert Frost Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras Winners are people with definite purpose in life. Denis Waitley If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last. Don Larsen I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. Dean Koontz

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick

fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it. Ted Kulongoski Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Florence Scovel Shinn Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies. Bode Miller In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. Michel Foucault Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women. Arnold Schwarzenegger I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. Walter Wager Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new. Hubert H. Humphrey

By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for

everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. Natan Sharansky For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting. Ewan McGregor Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers? Elayne Boosler The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting. James Daly Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Brooks Adams Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence. James Hal Cone

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a

sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. Michel de Montaigne Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Vince Lombardi The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. Don Shula Palaeontologists use fiction all the time. Norman Macleod John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. George Haven Putnam I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. Bill Joy Pitching is the art of instilling fear. Sandy Koufax

I get readings, I sometimes get five a week. You'll feel like a schizophrenic by

the end of that week. I don't know who I am any more. You'll be in conversation with a friend and start spitting out dialogue. Josh Holloway Subdue your passion or it will subdue you. Horace There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide. Edward Tufte Be who you are and be that well. Saint Francis de Sales In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity. Alvaro Uribe You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government. Rush Limbaugh The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl. Janeane Garofalo

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world

are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. Gilbert Murray All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. Ovid Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will. John Sterling Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. William Warburton I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. August Strindberg The hardest part is developing the idea, and that can take years. Eric Carle

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells,

bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. J. F. C. Fuller Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. Rabindranath Tagore The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. Shirley MacLaine Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor. Brittany Daniel Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? H. L. Mencken

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on

the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. Roger Waters Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies. Maria Bello A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. Clive Davis The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it. Gilbert K. Chesterton I'm really 95 percent Mr. Rogers, and only 5 percent Oscar the Grouch.' George Steinbrenner

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and

you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. Richard M. Daley I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous. Alberto Korda Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. Joseph Wood Krutch Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality. Clifton Fadiman Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left. Ambrose Bierce My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season. Martin Milner For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. George Ade

I will say that since our capture we have met with uniform kindness, and while

in the penitentiary our relations with the officers have been cordially pleasant, and for their considerate and kind disposition we feel profoundly grateful. Cole Younger This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. Norm Dicks You can get stale writing with each other for a while. Barry Mann No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. Jena Malone Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsger Dijkstra Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere

Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always

against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Ann Coulter Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself. Pythagoras You can always improve your bench and relief pitching. Keith Hernandez I like to think I can keep a pretty level head. Luke Wilson One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Dorothea Lange Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. Wislawa Szymborska But there is nothing to be done till a horse's head is settled. William Cavendish

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now,

I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best. Marilyn Manson If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. Dennis Prager If we are not free, no one will respect us. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad. Manfred von Richthofen What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease. Alexander Pope I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber. Ewan McGregor Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at

a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. Peter Mandelson Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw 'Programming' is a four-letter word. Craig Bruce It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society. Gideon Welles Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. Dwight D. Eisenhower The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. E. V. Lucas Each of us bears his own Hell. Virgil

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose

value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. Ovid Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. Dennis Prager The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. Piet Mondrian Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship. William Blum Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. Thomas Szasz Um, musicians are funnier you know, than actors on the whole. Tim Curry The facts are on our side. Karen Hughes

There are a couple of things that I'm sure people don't think are important, but

I do. I don't like hair changes unless there's a reason for it. Clothing - I don't like to see an outfit worn more than one time in an hour - you can wear it again a few weeks later. Aaron Spelling The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them. Dean Rusk I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty. Paul Bremer No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. Oscar Wilde Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored. Cliff Burton Creativity shouldn't be following radio; it should be the other way around. Herbie Hancock

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a

campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system. Abraham Robinson Alas, I think I am becoming a god. Titus I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. Curtis Carlson Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman. George Soros A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. Richard Bach Publish and be damned. Arthur Wellesley The terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the way we think about security. Richard Burr

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim

in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. Terry Pratchett So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on. Robert Vaughn What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen. Robert D. Kaplan Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. George Eliot We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. Gloria Steinem Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it. Jeff Hawkins I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. Dan Simmons

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a

high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word 'industry' is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense. Peter Weir The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time. James Whitcomb Riley I have too great a soul to die like a criminal. John Wilkes Booth I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. Michael Ironside I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. Laura Linney Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. Charles Edison My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more. Kim Wilde

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them,

as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Marshall McLuhan When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? Benjamin Franklin But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place. William C. Bryant The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. Cecilia Bartoli I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. Pablo Picasso

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of

therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel. Jonathan Davis I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. Robert Bosch Never spend your money before you have earned it. Thomas Jefferson I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. David Wooster Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney M. Young Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way. Jeremy Collier

I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was

this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous. Joseph Stiglitz You never really know a man until you have divorced him. Zsa Zsa Gabor There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. Carol Shields Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent. Larry Merchant How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? Brian Greene Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress. George Eliot Too many would-be executives are slaves of routine. James Cash Penney

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish

people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon. Bobby Sands The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them. Robert Zemeckis A case of can't do with, can't do without, that's why I married him again. Dionne Warwick It was Noel Coward whose technique I envied and tried to emulate. I collected all his records and writing. Kenneth Williams Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. R. Buckminster Fuller

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian

law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism. Joichi Ito Discontent is the first necessity of progress. Thomas A. Edison Next, in importance to books are their titles. Frank Crane No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years. Shirley Bassey Grace can and does have a history. Karl Rahner If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. Henry Miller She poured a little social sewage into his ears. George Meredith

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men

I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. Henry Norris Russell I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do. Joan Allen What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration? Henri Poincare The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. Charles Lamb Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon Bonaparte Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. Willem de Kooning I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries. Orhan Pamuk

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to

families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. Hillary Clinton I think celebrities suck. Eddie Vedder It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day. Milton Sapirstein Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. Lewis Carroll How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. Robert Southey I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body. David Wenham Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. Phaedrus

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young

people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal. Amy Grant I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience. Marguerite Young A decision once taken brings peace to a man's mind and eases his soul. Mika Waltari Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy. Jacques Maritain I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league. Mark Viduka I never made a film which fully satisfied me. Roman Polanski The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player. Bob Paisley

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature,

and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. Andrew Denton French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. Cameron Diaz You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation. James Daly Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. Carol Channing We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax. Whitey Herzog I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists. Smokey Robinson And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line. Slick Rick

I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have

strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like 'Rush Limbaugh,' and we don't have to put up with that. Howard Dean I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that! Shannon Hoon I know it sounds hokey but I think, ultimately, on television you can't hide who you are. Robert Urich The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! Tennessee Williams I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. Walter Hill If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back. Jane Harman It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible. Kelly Lynch

Like most musicians, I'm good at becoming immersed in the music that I am currently

working on. We seldom lift up our heads to contemplate even the music we will be doing in the future, let alone what we've done in the past. Tony Levin Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed. Edgar Bergen The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. John Owen We haven't had to defend anything to anybody. Ethan Coen One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct. Laurence Sterne These are the people who are going to see the pictures in my museum. Norton Simon Projective geometry is all geometry. Arthur Cayley

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to

do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that. Sean Patrick Thomas Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. Johnny Miller Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed. Frank Capra Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. Abu Bakr Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly. William Cavendish Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Mary Daly

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of

commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. Herman Kahn If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman. Helen Reddy Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. Harry Lorayne Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. Richard Linklater Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. Sydney Pollack And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England. Jill Dando Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard. Barry Pepper

In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I

do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday. Edward Albert All music has to speak in some form or other. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau America is the last great goal of these migrations. Ellsworth Huntington Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness. Bill Gates I don't like to fight. June Allyson Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. Cher A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free. Nat Friedman

I found in one of the tombs an inscription saying, 'If you touch my tomb,

you will be eaten by a crocodile and hippopotamus.' It doesn't mean the hippo will eat you, it means the person really wanted his tomb to be protected. Zahi Hawass I've been very lucky, considering what I look like and what I do. James Gandolfini Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk. Roddy Doyle What we do as a society is seek simple answers. Dean Koontz I never enjoyed working in a film. Marlene Dietrich A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I

didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up. William Petersen Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. Erma Bombeck Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. John Stuart Mill All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence. Howard Dean I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. Fred L. Turner A man is never drunk if he can lay on the floor without holding on. Joe E. Lewis

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose

to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well. Alan Cranston There are very few courses around Detroit I haven't played. Smokey Robinson The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. Logan Pearsall Smith I'm a player and I do it because I love playing whether it's for my album or someone else's. Tony Levin You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now. Bo Bennett Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. Desiderius Erasmus I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. W. C. Fields

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which

there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open. Clive Bell Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Marcus Tullius Cicero I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual. Andy Garcia Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system. Seymour Cray A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved. Dorothea Brande A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. Mark Twain Those who can bear all can dare all. Luc de Clapiers

I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book

out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. Eddie Campbell Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with. Maurice Greene Besides the physical strains I realized men can be pigs to women even when it's a man dressed as one. Michael Rosenbaum And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after. Piper Laurie Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that. Cindy Margolis The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. David Lee Roth Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one. Jerry Bruckheimer

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which

might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost. Kenneth Koch Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less. Joel Rosenberg The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. Maximilien Robespierre I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please. Jack Finney Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing. Robert B. Parker

Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a

training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy. Thomas Jane Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. Richard Bach I never did acid, I am just so high anyway. Cilla Black To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. Philip Massinger Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. Robert Louis Stevenson Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. Roger Kahn Hardware works best when it matters the least. Norman Ralph Augustine

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great

history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. Joan Cusack She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me. Raymond Chandler I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. George Canning There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and 'how well you look'. Nelson Rockefeller For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity. Sidney Altman Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there. John P. Kotter As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. Carl Jung

I made some friends who are still friends, and this is the city of my

birth. I love living here when there's a reason to, other than just moving here. I still don't like the winters here, but it's an amazing city and I love it. Michael McKean We have defeated Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The good news is Iraq is ours, and the bad news is Iraq is ours. David Letterman But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics. Jim Capaldi But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. Suzanne Farrell There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor. Gary Busey I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. Jimmy Hoffa Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to

philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of their field. Scientists have not generally needed or wanted to be philosophers. Thomas Kuhn The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. Bella Abzug Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart. Don Bluth The burden which is well borne becomes light. Ovid The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. Oscar Wilde The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection. Josiah Gilbert Holland Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. Evita Peron

Scientists have stated that embryonic stem cells provide the best opportunity for devising unique treatments

of these serious diseases since, unlike adult stem cells, they may be induced to develop into any type of cell. Eliot Engel The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. Franklin Pierce Adams When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me. Smokey Robinson When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form. Joichi Ito Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks. Peter Benchley Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven. Michael Novak

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can

support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. Meg Tilly I modelled my looks on the town tramp. Dolly Parton My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people. Dusty Springfield Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. Geoffrey Chaucer Those who easily forgive invite offenses. Pierre Corneille A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else. John Galsworthy He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work. Norman Tebbit

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be

contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. Voltaire The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. Bill Joy I have no academic qualifications whatsoever. David Irving Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. George A. Moore Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past. Francis Herbert Hedge We don't break the law. Kenneth Lay Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. Adela Florence Nicolson

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and

being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded. Susan George It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam. Adam Schiff We try some really interesting things besides being outright commercial. Bruce Johnston Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it. Holbrook Jackson Revenge proves its own executioner. John Ford Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them. Tommy Lasorda

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion

because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war. Arthur Henderson Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death. Thomas Browne Women loved that part 'cause K.C. was just sassy. Marg Helgenberger Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. Horace Mann Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell. Cass Canfield If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. Colin Greenwood If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks. Francois Rabelais

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others -

that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. Elmer Davis As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country. George Edmund Street We inhabit a language rather than a country. Emile M. Cioran Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. Bill Nye If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you. Paul Scofield Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site. David Prowse It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her. Lucretia Mott

Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you

write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks. Samuel West The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. Omar Bongo Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure. Chuck Schumer A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people. Adam Osborne Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given. Wynonna Judd It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising. Muhammad Iqbal

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like

a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. William Temple Leave them wanting more and you know they'll call you back. Bobby Womack I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. George W. Bush I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves. Joe E. Lewis He that lives upon hope will die fasting. Benjamin Franklin To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Khalil Gibran My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect

the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment. Judd Gregg Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural. Francois de La Rochefoucauld What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel. Franklin Pierce Adams And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all. Lucretius Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart. Phoebe Cary In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. Brian Mulroney The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. Robertson Davies

My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and

our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here. Ernie Fletcher Together we knew that we could have success. Troy Vincent I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. H. G. Wells For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes. Juvenal Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. Andy Grove Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel. John Spratt Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal. Don Shula

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there

is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. Ivo Andric You don't win tournaments by playing well and thinking poorly. Lee Westwood Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. Francis Arinze I don't meditate before I play or compose, but I see playing and composing as meditative acts. Steve Swallow It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films. Lars von Trier New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in. Jane Pauley I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it. Claire Bloom

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of

the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws. George A. Romero A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. Niccolo Machiavelli Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. Earl Nightingale The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride. Harold Warner The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. Agatha Christie An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. Lydia M. Child The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. Christopher Nolan

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle

between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Alfred Einstein The history of art is the history of revivals. Samuel Butler Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. Phyllis Diller And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? Tillie Olsen Nonsense and beauty have close connections. E. M. Forster This has been the best thing that ever happened to me. Peter Mayhew We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. Lord Byron

Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion.

But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain. John Desmond Bernal I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind. Peter Steele Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on. Joe E. Lewis One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. Erich Fromm Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment

of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice. Max Nordau I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent. Tom Hanks A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Walter Winchell Age considers; youth ventures. Rabindranath Tagore I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. Albert Einstein Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. Amelia Earhart I don't think business news is just for old white men with money. Neil Cavuto

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I,

I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times. Wen Ho Lee Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. Saddam Hussein You shall hear a good account of me or of my death. Charles Ferguson Smith I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing. Jimmy Rushing Make measurable progress in reasonable time. Jim Rohn Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline. Julius Schwartz Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. Henry Kissinger

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most

of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. Leonardo DiCaprio For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion. Mahatma Gandhi Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. Troy Vincent Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s. John Walters Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals. Ann Coulter I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys. Woody Allen Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Emile M. Cioran

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who

directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance. David Thewlis In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. David Viscott The day is coming when there will not be one sick saint in the body of Christ. Benny Hinn Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. Jonathan Edwards The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world. Jim Walsh The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. Marlene Dietrich Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will

liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. Claude Vorilhon Everyone wants to work in America. Maybe not blockbusters or Terminator, but to have the choice. Eva Green It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. Steven Wright I've written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental. Tom Hayden Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson Human cloning is coming. Mike Pence And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it. John Bigelow

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal,

if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. David R. Brower Always do something different. Always different things. Josh Lucas A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. Walter Lang I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention. John le Carre The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Julia Margaret Cameron We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Ovid I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk. John Huston

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by

monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving. Lee H. Hamilton I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit. Anthony Davis Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. Fran Drescher There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. John Kenneth Galbraith I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color. Fairuza Balk If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. Stanley Kubrick

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow

somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps. George Konrad Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure. Cass Gilbert I'm on this road for the rest of my life. Dennis Banks We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.' Robert Teeter We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. Al Gore Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. Eric Hoffer Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it. Victoria Jackson

Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday.

One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today. Pete Best There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about. Oscar Wilde An extreme optimist is a man who believes that humanity will probably survive even if it doesn't take his advice. John McCarthy Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents. Rod Blagojevich As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. Janice Dickinson War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. Gilbert Parker Brother Jones is not my product, and I am not responsible for anything he writes or says. John Harvey Kellogg

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral

state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy? Harriet Martineau I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first. Paul Taylor All warfare is based on deception. Unknown Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. Margaret Mead The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. Chinua Achebe And we never got the mule, let alone the forty acres. Charles Evers Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse. Lily Tomlin

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul.

One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. D. H. Lawrence There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling. Owen Hart Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. Theodosius Dobzhansky In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. Susan Griffin I will never relent in defending America - whatever it takes. George W. Bush I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living. John D. Rockefeller Wherever the fates lead us let us follow. Virgil

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in

the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans. John M. McHugh I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot. Judy Garland Remember the poor, it costs nothing. Josh Billings But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly. David Selby It is not how old you are, but how you are old. Jules Renard Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. John Wooden Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough. Conrad Veidt

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's

almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself. Patty Duke The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke. Kelly Lynch I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. Scipio Africanus I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. LL Cool J If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. Leigh Hunt Persevere and get it done. George Allen, Sr. Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience. George Szell

I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and

tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure. Doc Hastings Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme. Diane Watson We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops. Simon Le Bon Every invalid is a prisoner. Marguerite Yourcenar A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something. Tim Reid My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing. Richard Roxburgh I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. Bela Bartok

My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him,

and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship. Joseph C. Lincoln If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh. Lord Acton A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Albert Schweitzer We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. Henry David Thoreau Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life. Ann Landers Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site. Richard Kern When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. Eleanor Roosevelt

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings.

Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston. Robert Smith We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy. Dylan Moran Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly. Jim Elliot The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action. Raymond Holliwell It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. William Blake

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the

perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice. Allan Sloan I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning. Tom Cruise I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. Rodney Dangerfield I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing. Khandi Alexander People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Focus on remedies, not faults. Jack Nicklaus I think President Clinton was probably the brightest President of the 20th century. Martin Sheen

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in

which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail. Jean-Marie Le Pen There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self. John Gay An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Dwight D. Eisenhower The cat with gloves catches no mice. Navjot Singh Sidhu OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal. John Dillinger Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. Robert Collier If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. Norman Ralph Augustine

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act

rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. Lee Kuan Yew Tommie Aaron taught me how to have a good attitude, to be easy going and not get uptight. Dale Murphy I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds. Martha Smith Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. Wanda Sykes Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. Thomas Carlyle Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve.

But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school. Bonnie Hunt I went to a record store and asked for 50 cent. They kicked me out for pan-handling. Jay London I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change. Dan Marino Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. E. W. Howe To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! H. L. Mencken

The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive

democratic sentiment that might help us override both Islamic fundamentalism that has formed in that region, and also some of the hatred for our policies of invading Iraq. Bill Richardson Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. Earl Nightingale My characters always like themselves. Amy Sedaris You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at. W. H. Auden Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. Robert E. Lee The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself. John F. Kerry

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said,

done, and written, my own book of experiences will best show what these obstacles are, and how I managed to overcome them to some extent. Major Taylor We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of. Mikheil Saakashvili I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it. Margaret Thatcher A wise traveler never despises his own country. William Hazlitt Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting. Jack Bowman We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms. Samuel P. Huntington Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Louis XVIII of France

In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work

anywhere which requires me to work strict hours or follow a dress code. I don't know if that's an Asperger's thing or not, I think it's just being reasonable. Bram Cohen We are each responsible for all of our experiences. Louise L. Hay OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. Nat Friedman I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. Theodore Roosevelt The Cubs are due in sixty-two. Ernie Banks Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka

People aren't going to talk about it except me and that is communication and the

visits I have personally had in our meetings with our store managers saying if you do these things you will be terminated, period. Lee Scott The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' Mark Twain I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness. Demi Moore Hard distinctions make bad philosophy. John McCarthy Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. Baruch Spinoza I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. Ann Richards At some point, Moore's law will break down. Seth Lloyd

Well, I don't know what Ron has in mind, but I do know about the

arc of the show. Looking at how intuitive and instinctive Eddie and I play, that is the sort of thing that leads into sexual chemistry. I wouldn't be surprised if it emerged. Mary McDonnell To be like Christ is to be a Christian. William Penn Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. Evan Esar Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. William Shakespeare Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors. Thomas Muster If you dream and you believe, you can do it. Sean Combs Every mission accomplished. Matthew B. Ridgway

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there

is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. Penelope Lively Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. Roy Acuff Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Ambrose Bierce Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them. Jane Roberts I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how. Jennifer Wyatt There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood Rome was not built in one day. John Heywood

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters

little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. Benito Mussolini The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. Dean Acheson The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged. Democritus The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. J. Irwin Miller Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. Janis Joplin The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Catherine the Great Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud. Mignon McLaughlin

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express

our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. Ben Nelson Genius is sorrow's child. John Adams Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can. Dan Quisenberry The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. William E. Gladstone Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world. Murray Walker The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent

systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. Stephen Covey Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. Francis Bacon A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. Charles Wagner When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected. Luc de Clapiers In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. James Russell Lowell The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect. John Nelson Darby Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting. Gottfried Leibniz

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he

can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. Charles Dickens I think hidden underneath a lot of teachers are very sexy women. Andie MacDowell I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition. Imran Khan Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions. Steve Hackett The employer generally gets the employees he deserves. J. Paul Getty The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. Constantin Stanislavski

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness

of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? George Orwell Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked. Ralph Nader I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it. Lindsay Davenport Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. Walter Wriston Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way. Ted Levine There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily! Saint Francis de Sales Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. Theodor Adorno

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains

one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way. Madeleine Peyroux In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. Jean Rostand Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. Andrew Greeley Let's win one for the Gipper. Knute Rockne Taste cannot be controlled by law. Thomas Jefferson We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis. Nick Clooney Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt. Gail Parent

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not

being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too. Mia Farrow There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. Gilbert K. Chesterton I'm enthusiastic and ambitious, and I work hard. Jason Statham You've got to keep things flying. Keith Emerson If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel I did not defend myself. I say a life for a life. Ruth Ellis We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction. Edward Kennedy

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again

and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived. Margaret Mitchell My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world. Pat Buchanan I do not envy the headache you will have when you awake. In the meantime, dream of large women. Cary Elwes Everything yields to diligence. Antiphanes I weighed 190 when I got to boot camp, I came out at 178. I ate only the beans and tomato sauce. Tom Sizemore If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Huxley

Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure

there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company. Chester Brown There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. Audre Lorde One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you. David Duchovny We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves. Robert Anthony I don't know why, but I never felt I was gonna stay with the Stones forever, even right from the beginning. Mick Taylor The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. Gilbert Gottfried Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff. Madeleine Peyroux

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said,

between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. Robert Stone I love the life I live. The Lord blessed me to be independent. I am independent. Charles Evers I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars. James E. Gunn I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats. Albert Wynn Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. Hun Sen I was born on May 17, 1979, in Newark, New Jersey. Joe Tex I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. Gerhard Schroder

A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an

economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls. Sam Keen Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. Franklin D. Roosevelt In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. V. S. Pritchett How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. Barbra Streisand Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? John Lewis How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt. Robert Blair I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. William Weld

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When

I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit. Martin Henderson Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. Muhammad Ali There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. Ken Olsen Images adorn our inner life and carry great power there. William Shirley Nations are not thugs. They are bodies of intelligent people. Rufus Jones We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer

I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look

at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help. Erika Christensen Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake. Dorothy Malone Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all. George Washington I thought I'd do something nice for the band... I'll hang myself. Jason Newsted I never smile unless I mean it. Donny Osmond I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free! William Wallace Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do. Graeme Murphy

Once my doctor began treating my kidney disease, my greatest challenge was the constant exhaustion.

Fortunately, my doctor explained that anemia was causing my exhaustion and that people with serious illnesses, like kidney disease, may be at increased risk for anemia. Alonzo Mourning He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest. Hernan Cortes Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. Christina Rossetti He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. Lucius Annaeus Seneca The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. David Mallet In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. John Bunyan

Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country

is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not. Judith Martin My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' Michael Phelps One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines. Francois de La Rochefoucauld In TV we've used something that I love... it's called process. I love process. Jerry Bruckheimer I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. Henry Kissinger Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. Douglas Horton Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done. Sam Ewing

I am very much against weapons in space. And I wish we could be spearheading

that program to come to some kind of international agreement so that doesn't happen. That is my only - fear - in further space exploration like always, we hope it doesn't get abused. Scott Bakula Chicago's neighborhoods have always been this city's greatest strength. Jane Byrne Normal military trade is undoubtedly part of the normal State-to-State relations. Li Peng A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. E. M. Forster A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled. Imran Khan Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy. Gilbert Parker

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy

Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. Morris Chestnut I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. Rob Zombie I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with. David Gest I see too deep and too much. Henri Barbusse Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Dale Carnegie I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. Elliott Smith I'm a very emotional guy. Donnie Yen

The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize

that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. Crispin Glover We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained? Jack Welch When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. H. L. Mencken Hitting is an art, but not an exact science. Rod Carew Find patience in the breath of life. Ryunosuke Satoro Writing that's not working for a living. Robert Asprin This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it. Adam Osborne

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines,

and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact. Joe Biden I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. Ted Nugent You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. Patricia Clarkson You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. John Calvin Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes. Anne Boyd They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio. Keith Urban Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. A. C. Benson

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in

the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play. Sam Neill I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour. Percy Heath A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. Amy Lowell There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men. Black Elk The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way. Alan Bullock I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance. Michael Flatley Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. Denzel Washington

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we

must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. Hannes Alfven What drives the creative person is that we see it all. Wanda Sykes I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm. William Kidd I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented. Kathy Valentine Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor I was always inventing characters and making up stories. Suzanne Vega

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a

gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Arthur Helps Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. Jawaharlal Nehru I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect. Luther Allison I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album. Suzy Bogguss As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. Phillips Brooks There is nothing good or evil save in the will. Epictetus There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. Smedley Butler

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Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and

about ten times more massive than the Earth. Dimitar Sasselov I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something. Kimberley Nixon I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously. Art Alexakis My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all. Eloise Mumford I enjoy practicing law too much to even contemplate retiring, but I often think about engaging in serious study of the history of art, of the intricacies of classical music. I could write a fugue, or perhaps learn to play the cello. Karen DeCrow I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. JWoww In my career as a d

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there

wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. Matthew Rhys I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth. Randy Newman When you break a sweat you just feel great. You've got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren't able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat. Nicole Scherzinger I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys. Edie Falco I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body. Gianni Versace I have always been a Malibu Man, like all actors. Nick Mancuso Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. Paulo Coelho My

I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the

first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training. Vijay Sethupathi I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so young: I was literally just out of college. Tobias Menzies When you have an opportunity to do a series, you want to stick it out. You don't know when you're going to get another one like that again. Cleavant Derricks I am a really great daughter. Millie Bobby Brown Let us fight until the end. Let me try at least that - fight. Pep Guardiola You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea. Ryan North When there is a ring on my finger, which is actually given to me, then I'll tell the world. Till then, no one can claim me. Priyanka Chopra You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! Lydia Millet We are at a point in our nation's history w

I think you have to take each movie for its own value. There will be

those you'll roll your eyes over and others you can't wait to see. It all has to do with the intention. If someone's intention is just to make money and exploit something for profit, then it's not good. If it's thoughtfully done, the proof's in the pudding.Carrie-Anne Moss I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical school.John Delaney At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.Leonard Cohen I simply love coming to Chennai. My wife always complains, saying, 'You literally run at the mention of Chennai - I wonder what it is about that place!' I love how everyone is active here 24/7.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be

a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened. James McAvoy I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. Mitt Romney I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction. China Mieville I was raised to think cursing makes you look unintelligent. Chloe Grace Moretz Listen to many, speak to a few. William Shakespeare I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks. Katee Sackhoff I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears. Tori Spelling I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not. Tommy Shaw As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thi

Now I know that I should take better care of myself when I'm under an

intense deadline, or else my body is gonna act in certain ways that are not good. Tyra Banks It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing. Luka Sulic The most surprising thing, honestly, is that so few Americans know about the orphan trains. I was also surprised at the resilience and fortitude of the riders I met, their pragmatism and grace. I don't know whether this is a Midwestern trait or simply a human one. Christina Baker Kline OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people. Sam Yagan If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. Eric Kandel My nickname is Dickie Jukebox. I own thousands and thousands and thousands of songs. Richard Simmons I do love the music aspect of the Internet. The Inte

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine

this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. Mary Landrieu I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. H. L. Mencken A critical factor in its success was that the X developers were willing to give the sources away for free in accordance with the hacker ethic, and able to distribute them over the Internet. Eric S. Raymond The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some right-wing pastor, some right-wing politician telling them what to do. Howard Dean Substance must emanate from spirit and is nothing else than the record of the spirit's conception of itself finding expression in space and time. Paul Twitchell I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. Frit

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet

a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. Emma Goldman We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything. John Hunter Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. Aaron Carter God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with. Luis Palau Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. Rick Moody We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe. Alfred Kinsey Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People. Benjamin Disraeli

I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like

'Parks and Recreation' and the British version of 'The Office.' I'm reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I'm weirdly into true crime. Phoebe Tonkin My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face. Hannah Storm I love to make songs out of some of those shadows - you know, some of the things you lie awake thinking about, social anxieties and romantic insecurities and all that stuff. Matt Berninger The prosperity of the United States and the prosperity of the Hispanic community, as the fastest-growing community, are one and the same. The destinies are one and the same. Julian Castro Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. Lupita Nyong'o When I read 'The Water Diviner,' I was having the same kind of visceral r

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the

thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. William Morris So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee. Robert Browning As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again. Thomas Moore The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days. Voltaire Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants. William Osler There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties. Lionel Murphy