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In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately

estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals. James C. Maxwell Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. Simon Wiesenthal I've never been in the music industry, only acting. Victoria Jackson I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding. Alva Noto Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. Aristotle The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty. Nelson Rockefeller

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at

the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. Diane Johnson Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain. Patricia Velasquez Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. Jeremy Taylor So, I'm going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine. James Marsters I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend. Robert Vaughn I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on. Bill Wyman I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. Eddie Murphy

In Japan, you have no idea what they are saying, and they can't help you

either. Nothing makes any sense. They're very polite, but you feel like a joke is being played on you the entire time you're there. Bill Murray Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way. Dave Davies This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country. Clint Eastwood A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. Henry Ward Beecher A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. Ansel Adams It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. Henry David Thoreau But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people. Cliff Richard

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when

they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us. Evan Davis Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions. Vera Rubin It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. Luc de Clapiers Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. Mahatma Gandhi I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy. Stonewall Jackson Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. Simon Travaglia When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters, but telegrams. Charlotte Whitton

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to

change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why. Samantha Morton Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. George Borrow A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. Joseph Addison I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods. David Soul Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually. Donald Rumsfeld The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. Robert H. Schuller Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to. Alexis Bledel

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon.

You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. Dustin Hoffman Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology. Mark Warner One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights. Simone Weil I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat. Steven Gerrard If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. Neil Peart I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace. William Tecumseh Sherman Remember folks stop lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph. Jim Samuels

People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their

church functions, and products they buy are made by someone and some place so distant that they can't find anybody to talk to that has any influence over them. Robert Teeter For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. Lynn Abbey The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. D. H. Lawrence Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always. Dante Alighieri Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year. Ed Markey Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive. John Griffin Carlisle Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general. Lionel Hampton

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to

figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that. Kevin J. Anderson Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. Clifford Stoll Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans. James Meredith Transportation spending is a win-win proposition. Tim Bishop The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. May Sarton You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it. Lance Henriksen Missouri remains a low tax, efficiently run state, according to all prominent national rankings. Bob Holden

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister

was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons. Marvin Hamlisch Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. Charles Kettering Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Nicolas Chamfort October, that's when they pay off for playing ball. Reggie Jackson Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it. Maurice Greene A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing I hate weekends because there is no stock market. Rene Rivkin

In 1963 and later papers, I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical

care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved. Kenneth Joseph Arrow Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. Jeremy Collier With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances. Brett Favre Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all. Thomas a Kempis We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future. Christine Gregoire How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me. Vaughn Monroe No one is ever really dead unless we find the body. Julia Barr

The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard

of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system. John Bates Clark Is that weird, taking my Louis Vuitton bag camping? Jessica Simpson File sharing is our radio; that's the way people hear our stuff. Guy Picciotto I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me. Johnny Ramone I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. Ian Jackson I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young. Olivia Newton-John You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. Joe Paterno

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The

shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Allan Bloom Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. Samuel Rutherford The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot. William Ralph Inge Ross Perot. I could have had a ball with him. Rich Little I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career. Gloria Steinem I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people. Dick Dale To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. Albert Einstein

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I

may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today. Debbie Meyer If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. Robert Baden-Powell However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks. Havelock Ellis Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. Henry Ward Beecher I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country. John Engler What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on? George Carlin Simply surviving in this business is a feat. Lou Diamond Phillips

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's

good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores! Brett Somers Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Unknown I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. Dusty Springfield Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. John Gay The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts. Virgil I'm Colombian and nothing will change that. Shakira I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist. Suzy Bogguss

I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way

in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! Arnold Schoenberg Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Marcus Tullius Cicero Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. Christopher Atkins You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show. Robert Conrad We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. William Hazlitt All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. Robert Cormier When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person. Blaise Pascal

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show

this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely. Robert B. Parker Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. Norman Schwarzkopf Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care. Jimmy Buffett Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. Ludwig van Beethoven We might be workers, but we are not happy go-lucky jungle bunnies. Slick Rick Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. Jean-Paul Sartre Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. George Bernard Shaw

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly

more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Joseph Heller No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills. Jean Harlow Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell. Charles Kingsley Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad. Donald Trump All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. Billy Bragg I wanted to make something very unique, something very different. Shigeru Miyamoto If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments. John McCarthy

I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I

used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Penelope Lively You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. Chuck Palahniuk I think all great innovations are built on rejections. Louise Berliawsky Nevelson There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart. Thomas Fuller Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies. Jason Statham Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music. Maynard James Keenan Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. Giordano Bruno

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it

out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. Jean de la Bruyere A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting. Rose Macaulay It is likely that we need more radiation to improve our longevity. John Cameron Dramatics are what keep you in the seats. Jerry Bruckheimer If they want a photograph, then just take it. Keith Emerson Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to

do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are. Barry Mann I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that. Mark McGwire On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. Anita Loos Every day I run scared. That's the only way I can stay ahead. John H. Johnson With God's help and guidance, we shall soon see the end of this most unpleasant chapter in our history. John Agyekum Kufuor We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. Francois de La Rochefoucauld But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression. Edward Furlong

And I think the rolling polls put more pressure on them to sustain their beliefs

and to improve their delivery of the policy and their delivery of the ideas so that they can garner support for whatever principle they're articulating. Jim Bolger Wars are caused by undefended wealth. Ernest Hemingway Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. Hippocrates So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly. Della Reese When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important. Bill Shoemaker Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas. Laurence Sterne I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s. Lionel Hampton

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a

people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. James MacGregor Burns Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. Abraham Lincoln He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him. Bob Crosby Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin' Barry McGuire The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching. Roh Moo-hyun There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans. Angus Young We see things as we are, not as they are. Leo Rosten

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very

important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way. Corazon Aquino I remained associated with the Technische Universitat Munchen, where I became Professor in 1976. Robert Huber It doesn't matter how successful you are in this business, it's tough to get through the next door. Kevin Sorbo In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows. Woody Allen It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. Latrell Sprewell Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Arthur Koestler Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. Brooks Atkinson

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one

of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs. Emanuel Cleaver I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover. Fran Drescher I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. Drew Barrymore Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. Andre Gide Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember. Rob Zombie The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made. Tim Duncan But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love. Frank Langella

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by

the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant I really do like to work. I will work again. But on my terms. Julia Louis-Dreyfus Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Walter Scott No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. Beck And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine. Santiago Durango An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh. Will Rogers The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry,

and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. Maya Angelou When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank. Helen Hunt Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Ned Rorem Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes. Tori Amos But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. Herbie Hancock Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly. Mark McCormack

You have to take a huge loss financially to do a play. You have to

put aside the commercials and the speeches and the other things that put money on the table, and really save up to do it. And that's what I've done here. But it's worth it to me to be in a really good play. Dixie Carter Most people want security in this world, not liberty. H. L. Mencken Our concept is not that America should operate alone or by itself in world affairs or in military affairs. Douglas Feith An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Walter Bagehot In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. Franklin D. Roosevelt As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. James Cash Penney We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party,

obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. Susan Estrich Public opinion is a second conscience. William R. Alger The French revolution taught us the rights of man. Thomas Sankara Reality is, I'm an actor and an entertainer, and I really wouldn't know what to do with another profession. Russell Crowe Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas. Frankie Muniz The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. F. H. Bradley If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding. Andrea Jung

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power

and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet. Eric S. Raymond The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. H. G. Wells Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. Amos Bronson Alcott I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight. Linda McCartney Artists are like everybody else. Damien Hirst Life is never free of contradictions. Manmohan Singh If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again. Groucho Marx

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise

our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. Norman Douglas Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. Charlie Chaplin And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free. Lew Brown One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. W. H. Auden Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project. Bill Owens

I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change

from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not. Penelope Lively The supply of government exceeds demand. Lewis H. Lapham Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. Roy Acuff The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. Joseph Stalin If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down. Jimmy Doolittle Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers. Gerald F. Lieberman The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging. Richard Serra

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm

really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes. Jane Harman Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself. Stefan Zweig A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Ralph Waldo Emerson The only thing is we didn't have the supporting cast. Marcel Dionne The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. Freya Stark

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and

death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. Albert Camus Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them. Leo Rosten My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character. Beau Bridges I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something. Maynard James Keenan I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister. Kim Campbell

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification

for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. Isaac Bashevis Singer The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay. Troy Perry Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one. Andrew Wiles Education is the foundation upon which we build our future. Christine Gregoire What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. Bertrand Russell Marketing is the devil. Billy Bob Thornton Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. Christian Nestell Bovee

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations

such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. Graeme Murphy I'm not emotional. David Koresh Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty. Ann Oakley A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. Alexander the Great It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Lou Holtz Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them. Vint Cerf Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. Richard Francis Burton

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be

doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. Archibald MacLeish In show business, you get chewed up and spit out. John Aniston I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important. Rahm Emanuel The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Roy L. Smith It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use. Sam Abell Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. Albert Camus

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something

or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. Samuel Butler There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do. Anais Nin We die as often as we lose a friend. Publilius Syrus He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees. Benjamin Franklin Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. Anthony Hecht If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. William Shakespeare

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but

I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game. Ted Williams When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years. Linda Cardellini I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young. Lindsay Lohan I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist. Judith Butler You must obey the law, always, not only when they grab you by your special place. Vladimir Putin Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My

first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain. Conrad Veidt Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. Nat King Cole Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. Martin Farquhar Tupper In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare. Cindy Crawford When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior. Simone de Beauvoir I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy. Chris Wallace Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. Charles Dickens

Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and

the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it. William Laud You never know yourself till you know more than your body. Thomas Traherne Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order. Carl Hubbell What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. Oscar Wilde In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. Lawrence Summers There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Richard Foreman

At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said

rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now. David R. Brower 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Alfred Lord Tennyson The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past. Jalal Talabani The size of my head though is pretty abnormal. Philip Seymour Hoffman It is the fate of operating systems to become free. Neal Stephenson There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Joseph Campbell

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel

Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones. Evan Hunter Fear created the first gods in the world. Caecilius Statius I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits. David James Elliott We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Christian Nestell Bovee The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right. Mark Twain Malice is only another name for mediocrity. Patrick Kavanagh The restaurants close here in Salzburg. They don't really have a nightlife in the winter time. Cecilia Bartoli

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you

would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed. Mick Taylor My heart is in a world of water and crystal, My clothes are damp in this time of spring rains. Du Fu The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Marcus Tullius Cicero Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them. Derek Bailey I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off. Angie Dickinson Temporary solutions often become permanent problems. Craig Bruce

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't

the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' Bill Dickey By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus Character, not circumstances, makes the man. Booker T. Washington I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. W. H. Auden Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. John Pomfret I'm living the American dream. Dick Vitale I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler. Jack Kirby

THE rich possess ample means to realize any theory they may chuse to adopt in

the education of their children, regardless of the cost; but it is not so with him whose Subsistence is derived from industry. Joseph Lancaster All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. B. C. Forbes I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. Brigitte Bardot The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it. Gail Godwin It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance. Anya Seton For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. Saint Teresa of Avila

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell

the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed. Alfred Brendel Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quintilian Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. Nicolaus Copernicus Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero I do try to be resentful, I really do, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Robert Forster In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance. Bo Bennett Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting

has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero. Richard Dreyfuss Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff. Carl Reiner My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood. Salma Hayek Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. Bruce Lee Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. Robert Southey

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great

deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face. Madeleine Albright I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. John Mayer A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it. William Frederick Book Two things are as big as the man who possesses them - neither bigger nor smaller. One is a minute, the other a dollar. Channing Pollock My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that. Nina Blackwood When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist

and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together. Charles King When I'm onstage they know I'm honest, and I try to be as humble as I can. Chubby Checker You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England. Robert Maxwell The temporal quality of all things was being firmly impressed upon me. George Peppard Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out. Martin Scorsese The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. William Shakespeare

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make

him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. John Bates Clark Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily. Gary Coleman It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name. Paula Poundstone My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. Roseanne Barr It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people. Marc Jacobs

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we

have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in. Girma Woldegiorgis There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon Bonaparte Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero. David D. Burns The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. Ernest Renan The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Walt Whitman Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. E. Joseph Cossman

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in

the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. D. H. Lawrence I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. Patricia Clarkson Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. Lee Greenwood More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. Chuck Palahniuk Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Bud Abbott We must get rid of all the guns. Sarah Brady Kids are at my level. I like goofing around with them. John Goodman

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I

felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family. Milla Jovovich Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it. Andre Maurois I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old. Kevin J. Anderson Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. Thomas Aquinas All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. Epictetus The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the

scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul. Conrad Veidt The vicious circle has been shattered. Canadians now enjoy the benefits of the virtuous circle. Paul Martin A heart makes a good home for the friend. Yunus Emre Man has always needed to believe in some form of a continuity of achievement. Robert Vaughn Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink. Andrew Morton The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler I come from a traditional theater background. Mark Ruffalo

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will

spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. Bruce Lee If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. Marquis de Lafayette People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much. Nelson Bunker Hunt Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. Lionel Trilling I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Marcus Tullius Cicero I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman. Buchi Emecheta Too much of a good thing is wonderful. Armistead Maupin

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by

putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. George Herbert Mead The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. Antiphanes The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac The best way out of a difficulty is through it. Will Rogers Slot machines are like crack for old people. Keenen Ivory Wayans Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. Bob Marley There is more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before. Susie Bright

Class action lawsuits are an important part of our legal system. All citizens should have

the right to band together and settle grievances with bigger companies, but that system is broken and it needs fixing. Thomas Carper Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Nicolas Chamfort John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. Barack Obama If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? Chuck Schumer The waist is a terrible thing to mind. Tom Wilson Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. Bob Dylan

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq,

Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America. Kathleen Sebelius I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. Augustus Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. Charles de Montesquieu A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. William Hazlitt To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence. Thomas W. Higginson His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg. John Lahr

We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the

songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress. Dick Smothers A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. Fannie Hurst If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. Abu Bakr But paying is part of the game of life: it is the joy of buying that we crave. Gilbert Parker There's not ever much of anything going on in my head. Carrie Underwood Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe. Janos Bolyai I'm a Bristol person too, I lived in Bristol during the war. Julian Glover

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when

men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. Niccolo Machiavelli A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. Alan Patrick Herbert When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. Pete Seeger Getting bored is not allowed. Kay Thompson It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one. Richard Helms

You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated.

I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying. Lorraine Bracco She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop. Connie Stevens It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book. Thomas Keller The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art. Paul Klee For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. Storm Jameson The mercantile business did not suit me. John James Audubon

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get

my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised. Amy Lee Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep. Clifton Fadiman Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. Clement Attlee Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans. Joe Wilson Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world. Eliot Engel I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. Saint Teresa of Avila I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. Dick Gregory

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me,

the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference. Lorin Maazel Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it. Lucy Maud Montgomery Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones That's a good question. Let me try to evade you. Paul Tsongas Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. Thomas Shadwell The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. Epicurus Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker. Milla Jovovich

This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not

take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. Stephen Harper Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists. David Hilbert During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. John le Carre I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music. John Eaton Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken. Emanuel Cleaver The more you know the less you need to say. Jim Rohn Do what you fear most and you control fear. Tom Hopkins

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all

the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. Leon Trotsky I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. Charles de Lint Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. Eugenio Montale It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Julius Caesar But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough. Sarah Silverman We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies. Lee Scott Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it. Robert H. Schuller

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to

a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. David Amram There are no more liberals They've all been mugged. James Q. Wilson I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest. Rodney Dangerfield You gotta have a body. Jayne Mansfield Music is the medicine of the mind. John A. Logan I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one. Clarence Darrow Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly. Plutarch

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver

swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. Frank Herbert People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful. Maurice Greene Why they vote for me is irrelevant, but if they do, they're in safe hands. Pim Fortuyn We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. Jan Peter Balkenende With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. Otto von Bismarck I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. Bob Dylan

When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at

first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio. David Lee Roth In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. Christiane Amanpour A word to the wise is infuriating. Hunter S. Thompson Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other. Sam Mendes I'll rail against what I think is wrong. Neil Cavuto Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people. Louis Farrakhan You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. Paul Brown

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward

authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. Jonathan Shapiro The answer dictates what the policy should be in our relationships with every country in the world. Bob Menendez Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. Robert James Waller Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home. Sigmund Freud People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget. Ted Stevens I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life. Lars von Trier Yeah, there's a tendency to get pigeonholed in Hollywood. Mark Ruffalo

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public

purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this. Michael Kinsley What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Oscar Wilde History seems to be so clumsy. Robert Johnson Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean. Christopher Reeve All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs. John Walters The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years. Bobby Scott My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. Aristotle

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication,

and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to. Frank Luntz Architecture aims at Eternity. Christopher Wren This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest. Byron Dorgan No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez It is certain because it is impossible. Tertullian What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Samuel Johnson Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something

that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14. Max Weinberg For me optimism is two lovers walking into the sunset arm in arm. Or maybe into the sunrise - whatever appeals to you. Krzysztof Kieslowski I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. Harry Caray When we're onstage, it's like mind reading: we're on the same page. Guy Picciotto All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. James Allen The busier we are the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie. Peter Mayhew

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are

the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity. Alexander Haig You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in. Lance Henriksen To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair. Rodney Alexander Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Robert Baden-Powell The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. Marcelene Cox Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience. Victoria Jackson My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white. Fran Drescher

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a

revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. Carlos Castaneda What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. Brendan Behan To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry. Corey Feldman And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands. David Gest Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful. Benjamin Disraeli How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Henry David Thoreau

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but

I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful. Ken Hensley To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime. Howard Crosby Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. Aristotle I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do. Julie Benz Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. W. Somerset Maugham I've had. It's the real me. People don't deserve anything less. Corey Clark A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. William Arthur Ward

You know, nobody eats in England. Three or four pints of English beer a night

fills you. I can't say I'm very impressed with the food in America. it's all sort of bland. Like turkey sandwiches. Anne Dudley I'm never going to get in a fight in public again. Scott Caan A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. Adam Clayton To be in the right is often an expensive business. Phyllis Bottome It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. Ellsworth Huntington Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Edmund Burke If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. Robert Frost

I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to

do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS. Eric Carr I have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years. David Blaine Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it. Roger Maris Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart. George Eliot Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary. Ray Knight We cannot wish for that we know not. Voltaire The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity. Lou Henry Hoover

That doesn't necessarily mean they have to have an explicit proposal that they put forward

that all Democrats sign up to, but I think they need to throw some ideas out that, at least directionally, point the way forward. John Podesta Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock. Ann Wilson O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! William Shakespeare If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed. Barry Pepper I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Walt Disney You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. Norman Douglas Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. Oscar Levant

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have

expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? Ellen Goodman I should imagine that the conditions in the cockpit are totally unimaginable. Murray Walker Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions. Joseph Roux The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live. Billy Sherwood Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. Sextus Propertius It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. Jose Marti

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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a

film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well. Danny Boyle I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. Arielle Dombasle I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast. Tommy Hilfiger As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all. Gene Tierney I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. Sam Wyly You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way. Terry McMillan No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. Thomas Malthus Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. Vaclav Havel The best thing about be

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and

hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. Herman Melville There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?' Dave Obey The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity. Alan Gregg This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started. Nick Cannon I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine. Robert Smith How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! William Shakespeare Fear is natur

Growing up in northern California has had a big influence on my love and respect

for the outdoors. When I lived in Oakland, we would think nothing of driving to Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz one day and then driving to the foothills of the Sierras the next day. Tom Hanks The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities. Jose Eduardo dos Santos I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. Brian Harvey In recent years, we have been sending a clear, consistent signal about the harms of drugs, particularly marijuana, which for most young people is the first illegal drug that they are exposed to. John Walters It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. Immanuel Kant When I go to a concert, I can't believe that people pay lots of money to see a band that t

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a

constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. Will Rogers Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. John W. Gardner Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife. Louis Farrakhan The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. Robert Taft Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner While a lab Director can ge

If you are talented, you can really do anything. And if your heart is at

the right place and you have the passion for it, you can go for it and do it. Heidi Klum As an actor there are times when you're sitting around and wishing you were working, so you've got to just take it when it comes. Rosario Dawson The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights. Joe Andrew I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do. Eddie Van Halen Being alone is very difficult. Yoko Ono Natural gas is great for America in so many ways. Ed Rendell Science does not permit exceptions. Claude Bernard You can't know about marriage until you try it. Greg Evigan History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. Eva Herzigova There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy. Sam Trammell

Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more

powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy. Nathan Myhrvold If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album. Lil Wayne If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done. Tony Gilroy There are lots of moments that are great for an actress. Ruth Wilson I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well. Lindsey Graham Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. Alphonse Karr Also, many consumers consider a critic to be like God Almighty. Robert Mondavi You just get the vibes of your surroundings and it rubs off on you. Gordon Lightfoot Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed togeth

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend,

who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. Claire Danes I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell. Pat Buckley Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. Samuel Butler I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes. David Oyelowo The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman. LeBron James I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths. Aeschylus I don't wish my career on anyone. John Entwistle I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed. Gordon Ramsay I don't like to stop. I believe you stop when you die. Lil Wayne Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way. Alexei Sayle

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world

of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. Adam Michnik Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. Mary Douglas The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess. Carter G. Woodson Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. David Eddings Believe me, when an actress is told that her v

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into

politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it. John McEnroe That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller. Lew Wasserman I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well. Hale Irwin Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves. Ezra Taft Benson As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want. Dennis Rodman It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coach