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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and

that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different. Damien Hirst I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know? Rachel McAdams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. John Adams The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit. Rush Limbaugh A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. Theodore Roosevelt Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Sidney Hook The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome. A

Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and

the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper. Pete Rose I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on. Haley Joel Osment I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures. Sydney Pollack Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance. Arthur Ashe The farm women are extremely well organized and are bound to be heard from. Edith Rogers If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger. Andy Summers You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith! Donna Mills

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which

is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. Camille Paglia In the business world and the volunteer world, each job has certain requirements that must be met in order for that job to be done properly and for that organization to survive and prosper. Ron D. Burton Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry Adams A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. Logan Pearsall Smith There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing. Story Musgrave When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to

endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children. Roma Downey We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away. George Harrison When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people. Slick Rick The sinews of war are infinite money. Marcus Tullius Cicero The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. Clarence Darrow The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. Fred Allen

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids

you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. Charles Barkley A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. Frederick William Robertson I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. Franklin D. Roosevelt There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows. George Crook Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk. Michael Eisner The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination. Bryant H. McGill

We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March

organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards. Michael D. Barnes Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won. Louisa May Alcott There's always the new wrinkle. One must keep one's eyes always open. George Peppard I make movies based on gut. Jerry Bruckheimer All I need is my brains, my eyes and my personality, for better or for worse. William Albert Allard Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. Charles Keating But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help. Tanya Tucker

Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the

plants are thrown into a flowering states, and then, as they flower freely year after year, they have little inclination to make vigorous growth. Robert Fortune Over the years, I've trained myself to speak using the same language I would use if I were typing: meaning using full sentences in the way that paragraphs and scenes are arranged. Kevin J. Anderson Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. Samuel Smiles I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book. Sally Kirkland In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape? John Crowe Ransom Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. Alfred Austin

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the

world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. Mary Garden Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. Susan Blackmore Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges. Thomas W. Higginson I think more dating stuff is scheduling. It's needing people who understand your work schedule. Jennifer Love Hewitt You learn a lot, writing fiction. Penelope Lively The bold are helpless without cleverness. Euripides The best thing about New York is everything is available. Whatever you want, New York has got it! Paige Davis

Some story appears in some newspaper that says that somebody said X, Y, and Z,

and a customer says, I don't understand what they're talking about - we're running that product, we've been using it for five years, what are they talking about? Sanjay Kumar Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. Roger Bacon The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. Jay Leno I didn't want the record to be cold and I don't think it's cold at all. I felt it was very people oriented. Jon Crosby That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life. Meg Tilly It's funny how most activists are pacifists. Craig Bruce I'd rather go naked than wear fur. Christy Turlington

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for

me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive. Luis Miguel Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. Olympia Snowe Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. David Viscott The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it. Joan Collins I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it. Tony Williams What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind. Wendell Phillips Every man has a sane spot somewhere. Robert Louis Stevenson

There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director

makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Dick Wolf This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Frederick Law Olmsted Books have led some to learning and others to madness. Petrarch Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds. Joan Rivers We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Will Durant Where children are, there is the golden age. Novalis It's all about racing on the track. Adam Petty

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts

in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government. Sarah Jessica Parker When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one. Tim Reid That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. James Thomson Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. Jim Horning The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. Robert Browning But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth. Ted Shackelford

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that

we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. Newt Gingrich If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you. Neal Boortz Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all. Ernest Shackleton Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. Dietrich Bonhoeffer I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either. David Cross Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. Dante Alighieri I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion. Brenda Lee

Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's

it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa. Art Blakey Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners. Dirk Kempthorne Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. Jean-Paul Sartre Being too good is apt to be uninteresting. Harry S Truman Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. Dorothy L. Sayers We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material. J. T. Walsh It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality. Clive Bell

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves,

more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. Etty Hillesum If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present. Claus von Stauffenberg Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium. Steve Crocker I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men. Matt LeBlanc My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body. Claire Bloom Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. Steven Pinker Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be

married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. Nina Simone As a writer, you have control of the words you put on the page. But once that manuscript leaves your hand, you give control to the reader. As a director, you are limited by everything: weather, budget, and egos. Nicholas Meyer You can't please all the people all the time. Miranda Richardson The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything. Lee Iacocca It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow. Miguel de Cervantes There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. William James As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. John Lennon

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics.

We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. Mark Warner In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. L. Sprague de Camp I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad. Hart Crane She was short on intellect, but long on shape. George Ade There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. Emile M. Cioran I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. Louis XIV It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow. Lynn Abbey

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm

very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going. Mary Pierce Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Diane Abbott Honor is but an empty bubble. John Dryden Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes. Bette Midler Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad. Mitch Miller It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win. Jose Eduardo dos Santos A man with money is no match against a man on a mission. Doyle Brunson

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs

to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. Allen Boyd My perfect girl would be pretty mad, but one you can have a conversation with. No one can be too mad for me, the madder the better. I love a crazy chick! Lee Ryan I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is. Donald Trump I'm curious about everything. Even subjects that don't interest me. Alex Trebek A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. Theodore Roosevelt My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you. Keith Miller Where love is, there God is also. Mahatma Gandhi

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic

groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes. Boris Trajkovski Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Gordon Cooper If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it. Daniel Keys Moran I tend to like things that already exist. Jasper Johns Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. Robert Baden-Powell Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. Jim Dine To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. Jacob Bronowski

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked

and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. Johann Arndt My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. Robert Frost By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. Saint Augustine We live in a very complex world. Vint Cerf Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them. Christian Nestell Bovee Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. Ralph Waldo Emerson It's a beautiful tale, and today is a beautiful day without any bugs. Hugo Pratt

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this

formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. James F. Cooper I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future. Bernie Sanders There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself. Dwight L. Moody At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual. Alanis Morissette Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. Derek Walcott All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it. Curtis Carlson We must make working life more human. Goran Persson

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really

know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by. Jeffrey Sachs There is a great deal of work that can be done between the SDLP representing the Nationalist population and the Unionist Parties, and I believe we should set down to do that. Dick Spring Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Jonathan Swift When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. Pearl Bailey So, I'm getting less chips, paying the same amount of money. Is that legal for them to do this? Julie Chen Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. Phil Jackson I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. Beau Bridges

I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street

fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition. Michelle Rodriguez Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. Thomas Fuller The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts. Dave Freudenthal I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad. Whitey Ford

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what

overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. Arundhati Roy Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. Mickey Mantle For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement. Pierre de Coubertin I have a following. Whenever I am on tour they come. It is always sold out. Nina Hagen The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. Euclid The pen is mightier than the sword. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton One is not born a woman, but becomes one. Simone de Beauvoir

I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies.

There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order. Tom McClintock I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not. Damon Hill Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. Yeardley Smith It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business. Courtney Thorne-Smith Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. Thomas Brooks Failure is always an option. Adam Savage Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Wilde

Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people

will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system. Larry Elder Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation. Don Hewitt Major labels blow all their money massively and blame it on the band. Bruce Dickinson But filming is good for you, because the crew isn't allowed to laugh. You can't get addicted to getting the laugh. Ben Kingsley I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one. Brion James Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. Friedrich Nietzsche The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find. Denis Diderot

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens

dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt Dignity belongs to the conquered. Kenneth Burke Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. Robert Herrick I ran my fastest marathon in the rain. Bill Rodgers To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad. Abu Bakr There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with

fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. Thomas More The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it. Walter Bagehot You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. Warren Beatty Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. Samuel P. Huntington Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from. Chuck Close An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old. Carl Van Vechten

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the

life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea. Deborah Bull Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go. Erma Bombeck Control your life through insanity. Cliff Burton Love has reasons which reason cannot understand. Blaise Pascal Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller The forms of my awareness are richer than yours. Hans Bender Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. Francis Quarles

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his

subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me. Dennis Wilson I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy. Jim Dale There is no reason to repeat bad history. Eleanor Holmes Norton Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. Thomas Carlyle A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint. Aime Cesaire When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. John McCarthy

I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition

to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me. Marcia Gay Harden Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. John Milton I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. Kristin Scott Thomas How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing. Albert Camus I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for. Al Alvarez I celebrate myself, and sing myself. Walt Whitman I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. Earl Weaver

Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you

will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back. Bill Gates I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera. Robert Ashley Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George MacDonald My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. Bette Midler We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us. Virginia Satir There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it. Pam Grier Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt

Once you've reached the point where you can pay rent, you can go to the

vet and you can go to the grocery store, after that point it's all the same. I don't have the appetite for a decadent lifestyle. Renee Zellweger I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology. Irvine Welsh I have an old brain but a terrific memory. Al Lewis Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H. G. Wells Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being. Sri Chinmoy I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything. Victoria Jackson He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. Gilbert Parker

The American people do not like privatization. They are afraid of the debt the president's

willing to do. And they don't like benefit cuts. And everyone here should understand all 45 Senate Democrats are united. We are not going to let this happen. Harry Reid My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses. Richard M. Daley It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected. Mark Twain Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. Oprah Winfrey Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels. Roy Barnes Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. Honore de Balzac I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored. Natalie Imbruglia

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts

above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction. Hans Bender In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out. Patti LaBelle Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. Arthur Schopenhauer The welfare system in the United States is vile. Daniel Keys Moran It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. Adlai E. Stevenson A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. Erma Bombeck

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them

not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx. Arthur Hertzberg I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker. Les Paul There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that! Holly Marie Combs The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. Aneurin Bevan Minneapolis has two seasons: Road Removal and Snow Repair. Steven Brust Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. Daniel Dennett I'm an outsider. Jack Levine

I lived in small town out in the desert and my friend used to steal

his mom's car in the middle of the night. He'd drive over to my house, I'd sneak out and we'd go out to the desert and just burn things down. Mark Hoppus You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do. Joan Severance Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself. Jeffery Deaver There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I know how men in exile feed on dreams. Aeschylus Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Willa Cather One often calms one's grief by recounting it. Pierre Corneille

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another.

This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. Cyril Connolly A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him. Ben Hecht Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Jean Kerr Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Joel A. Barker Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. Julien Green I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare. Ted Lange Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music. Lisa Marie Presley

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer

I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it. Charles R. Swindoll It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. Robert South I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old. Linda Evans Prevention is better than cure. Desiderius Erasmus Let us choose to believe something good can happen. J. Martin Kohe Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. Martha Stewart Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world. Tommy Douglas

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or

to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. Joseph Hume Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience. Victoria Pratt I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch. Wanda Jackson Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr. Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. James Allen The victor belongs to the spoils. F. Scott Fitzgerald Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emile M. Cioran

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic

to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. Nelson A. Miles In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write. Pearl S. Buck It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity. John Templeton When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed. Marilyn Manson Comfort came in with the middle classes. Clive Bell The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. Abe Lemons Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. Steven Soderbergh

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as

an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators. Zell Miller Many people believe that the current system must inevitably end in total annihilation. They reject, sometimes very emotionally, any attempts to analyze this notion. Herman Kahn I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine. James Hetfield Oh, what lies there are in kisses. Heinrich Heine Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. Lenny Bruce No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction. Fay Weldon Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Johannes Brahms

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is

only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Khalil Gibran I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz. Jon Huntsman, Jr. National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people. Kim Jong Il I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music. Herbie Hancock Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. Joseph Addison Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack. Wilhelm Steinitz More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. Billy Sunday

Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an

individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. Anthony Trollope I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself. Eva Longoria There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. Marion Milner Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. Oswald Mosley My faith doesn't go over real well in Hollywood. Jim Caviezel Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. Muhammad Ali

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep

ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. Patricia Sun One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one. James E. Gunn The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. John Dryden Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. Richard Branson Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. Joe Hill 'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' Lewis Carroll

With the success of the last three or so years, when a lot of people

start treating you differently, there's a danger that you may start to think of yourself differently. You rely on your friends to say, 'Hey, wake up!' David Schwimmer Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems. Paul J. Meyer The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product. Neil Cavuto Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. Mortimer Adler I know all human beings will be successful. How do I know? They all die. Stephen Evans I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat. George H. W. Bush Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. Samuel Goldwyn

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on

the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' Stephen King Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop! Keith Urban Social Security not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty. Zoe Lofgren Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. Alexander John Ellis The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. David Hilbert We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese. Matt Stone A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over. Norman Rockwell

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today?

what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca You've got to love the villain if you have to play him. You've got to find something that you can live with in yourself if you're going to play the villain in a play on stage. Jim Dale A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. Mahatma Gandhi I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening. Barbra Streisand Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. Dean Koontz The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason. Navjot Singh Sidhu On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! Alexander Henry

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the

EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. Bill Gates We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention. Dan Marino The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages. E. V. Lucas There's one thing about baldness, it's neat. Don Herold Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car. Evan Davis The only way I could relax was when I was with my children. Andrew Wiles

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose

parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids! Moira Kelly It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. Jack Lemmon There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. Paul Gauguin There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind. Johnny Ball Music is part of God's universe. Cat Stevens Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When in doubt, sing loud. Robert Merrill

We used to get one room and we'd park the vehicle outside, everybody would all

take showers and we'd steal towels because we knew we wasn't gonna have enough towels for all five of us to shower. Buck Owens I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway. Mark Ruffalo My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her. Amy Jo Johnson This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat. Charles Davenport I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. Arthur Schopenhauer Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. H. L. Hunt No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. Pope Paul VI

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time

of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. Townsend Harris But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. Donald Cargill Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. Francis Bacon What other people think about me is not my business. Michael J. Fox The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour. Walter Savage Landor You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business. Victor Kiam I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment. Walt Disney

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease

to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. Aldous Huxley We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual. Lee R. Raymond The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. Colin Powell People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have. John Holt I think I can try the film world out for a while. Kristanna Loken God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Ralph Waldo Emerson All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer. Crystal Gayle

I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell

them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important. Gisele Bundchen I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as professional and as true, so it's just a different flavour, it's a different sound, but I think both have their place. Billy Sherwood One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it. Roy Barnes I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream. Ayumi Hamasaki Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau One thing I would like to see is a stronger ladder series for up-and-coming American drivers. Michael Andretti You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough. E. W. Howe

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it,

all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. Frank Stella I'm for whatever gets you through the night. Frank Sinatra I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert H. Schuller Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.' Maya Angelou Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them. Mia Hamm We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast. Logan Pearsall Smith

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom

my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. John Spratt Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest. Frederick Lewis Allen Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place? Kate Millett Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle. Lee Scott Now the difficulty with those warnings is that they were not specific. Lee H. Hamilton Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses. Virgil

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that

I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. John le Carre The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill This game is something Australians really look forward to. Matthew Hayden There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders. Ralph Bunche Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death. George Whitefield There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel. Lewis Tappan My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels. Eric Roberts

I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which

is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. Jackie Cooper Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces? Auberon Herbert The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. Matt Blunt Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest. Rickey Henderson It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. Thomas Browne The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery! Meat Loaf So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible

way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. Rem Koolhaas Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible. Matthew Perry Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest. Ted Williams Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. Margaret Cho I sing around the house, in the shower. Aaron Neville It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian. Manfred von Richthofen

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse

any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets. Judith Light I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad. Dakota Fanning I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen. Patti LaBelle There is no such thing as sportsmanship. Terrell Davis Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell. Alfred Lord Tennyson We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. Gilbert K. Chesterton Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I talk as I sketch, too, in order to keep their minds off what I'm

doing so I'll get the most natural expression I can from them. Also, the talking helps to size up the subject's personality, so I can figure out better how to portray him. Norman Rockwell It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic. Cecilia Bartoli An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes. Brent Scowcroft My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow. Sun Myung Moon A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. Howard Fineman With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. Eric Allin Cornell I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful. Ruth Handler

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they

discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. Major Taylor In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day. Robert B. Laughlin In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. Tristan Bernard It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else. Suzanne Vega I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. Bette Midler Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice. James Cash Penney

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and

out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. Bede Griffiths I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated. Michael Bergin A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often. Oliver Herford I'm Jewish, but I'm totally not. Sarah Silverman Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life. Brian Clough You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. Tim Vine I live and love in God's peculiar light. Michelangelo

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when

I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree. Bai Ling I would say colonialism is a wonderful thing. It spread civilization to Africa. Before it they had no written language, no wheel as we know it, no schools, no hospitals, not even normal clothing. Ian Smith True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will. Jonathan Edwards The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. Thomas Paine Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. Phaedrus We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. Calvin Coolidge A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose. Peace Pilgrim

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw

the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Karl Rove I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. John Pomfret The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. W. Somerset Maugham Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. Tom Peters Education, for me, has helped me in my music. Bob Livingston Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again. Ben Shneiderman He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two

decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. Shirley Chisholm I think it's imperative to follow your heart and choose a profession you're passionate about, and if you haven't found that 'spark' yet, if you're not sure what you want to do with your lives - be persistent until you do. Steve Kerr The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. Jackie Kennedy We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. Margaret J. Wheatley A winner never whines. Paul Brown I improve on misquotation. Cary Grant Faith is not contrary to reason. Sherwood Eddy

I always go with the story and character and if those are good and if

the setting is something that's scary (horror films seem to always take place at night and the weather's always bad) then I might be interested. David Naughton I just can't wait to get out there on stage. There's no anxiety at all. I love being able to take this journey with the audience, because we all have a ball with it - even if we're crying. Loretta Swit Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door. Adela Florence Nicolson Honesty is something you can't wear out. Waylon Jennings No woman has an abortion for fun. Elizabeth Joan Smith There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male. Hazel Scott I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. Vernor Vinge

In the first Spider-Man, at the end of the movie, Peter Parker had to deny

himself a relationship with a girl that he's in love with. The very next thing that happens is that he's swinging through the city. John Dykstra Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. Pope Benedict XVI I feel happy to terrify kids. R. L. Stine Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion. Calvin Coolidge We're not losing the peace. Frank R. Wolf There is always something new out of Africa. Pliny the Elder

Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time

with them and you don't pay attention to them and talk to them and listen to them, it doesn't matter that they're just around you. Brandy Norwood The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode. Spalding Gray If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? Steven Wright I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old. Satchel Paige Be fair with others, but then keep after them until they're fair with you. Alan Alda A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Emily Bronte My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. Robert B. Laughlin

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue

to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics. Artur Davis I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself. Sam Mendes Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. Robert Frost I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am. Michael Moriarty Ideally the world would look like Davos, where there's more security than we can even see on the street. Bill Owens Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific. Joichi Ito Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. Camille Paglia

I think that when NASA works on a moon shot, they know too well that

all of the people working on it must do their job at 110 percent. Sometimes they probably put in 18 hour days, but they're aiming for the moon, and that's what counts. Marvin Hamlisch In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series. Craig Kilborn Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last? Letitia Elizabeth Landon Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. William Temple Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others. Jackie Joyner-Kersee Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. John Cotton Dana I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them. Marcel Dionne

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This

will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions. Erwin Rommel I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special. Gerard Butler Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. Mickey Mantle I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. Mary Harris Jones Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. Arthur Eddington Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries? Pope Paul VI Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating. Lionel Hampton

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one

that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. John Maynard Keynes Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world. Julie Bishop If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen. Richard M. DeVos Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Henri Poincare In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen. Mike Judge Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak. Marcus Tullius Cicero We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart Udall

A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both

Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. Greg Walden One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity. Edward de Bono Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. Ovid Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. John Berger George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy. Brad Sherman Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. Ovid A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. George Borrow

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy

in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. John Stuart Mill Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. Nora Ephron Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never. Albert Camus Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age. Clive Bell Big league defense is going to get outs most times. Barry Zito The bungle tour is a bit up in the air due to the fact this at we are getting screwed by our overseas label. Trevor Dunn I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection. Dick Dale

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking

for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me. Luke Perry I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am. Bob Mould Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines. Dag Hammarskjold And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire. Tanya Tucker With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Edgar Allan Poe I have just been all round the world and have formed a very poor opinion of it. Thomas Beecham It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and

also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad. John Pomfret I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught. Fred L. Turner I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. Richard Dawkins Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. Henri Bergson Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them. Anthony Rapp Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday. Melanie Griffith For each book, the time is also broken up. George Stephen

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and

Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system. Shigeru Miyamoto I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. Robin Cook Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Apparently, the image of our president is as offensive to MTV as it is to me. Trent Reznor I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. Saint Patrick No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. Winston Churchill Some say we are responsible for those we love. Others know we are responsible for those who love us. Nikki Giovanni

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he

meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. Carl Rogers Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe. Ruth St. Denis Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. Clark Gable That's all nonviolence is - organized love. Joan Baez I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now. Debra Wilson Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. Bertrand Russell We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. Judy Garland

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the

Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration. Hal Lindsey Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency. Richard E. Grant I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for. Loretta Young He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. William Hazlitt Every song is like a painting. Dick Dale Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature. Joseph Addison Our power is not so much in us as through us. Harry Emerson Fosdick

If you look at the game and everything, it's not quite like looking at an

animated film, because that's total character. This, this is really movement, but it's got funny little things if you look for the humor. They're actually getting to the character. Don Bluth For me it's the instrument. If I want to think of a flute and the state of the arts I hear a vibrato; I don't know what a flute is unless the person plays it for me. Morton Feldman Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. Laurence Sterne I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. David Duchovny I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. Richard Linklater I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed. Bob Uecker We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. Dalai Lama

So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the

Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die - those who go against our movement. Sun Myung Moon There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity. Marc Maron Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad? Isadora Duncan What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with. Cecil B. DeMille Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. Boris Pasternak

In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next

morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day! Angie Dickinson But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much. Crispin Glover You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. Orison Swett Marden The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. Edward Bond Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be. Princess Diana I am one of the crucified dead. William Henry Moody In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. Vint Cerf

Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take

a loss for us to lose in a sense. But overall, when we win games here at Duke, and we don't play well, we might as well have lost the game. Jason Williams I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally. Steve Hackett All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. Robert Southey Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother. Karen Carpenter You make kingdoms and castles on your own. Stephan Jenkins There is no great genius without some touch of madness. Aristotle

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one

woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now. Jim DeMint Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?' Jimmy Fallon Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. Lily Tomlin I think governments are the cancer of civilization. Chuck D It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency. Jeffrey Sachs I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people. Carol Kane

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience

of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. Ernest Mandel I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. Henry A. Wise It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it. Matthew Prior I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. Fred Allen So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime. Ruben Blades We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. Carl Levin

I am persuaded, that if any attempt is made to improve the education of the

poor, and such an unmanly spirit should guide the resolution of a society or committee for that purpose, it would render the design abortive. Joseph Lancaster A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more. Richard G. Scott To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy. David Brooks An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. Bob Nelson I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are. Joan Van Ark I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars. Benjamin Orr The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. Walter Savage Landor

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated.

He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not. Carl Van Vechten An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. George Haven Putnam Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear. Mary C. Jones Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. Alex Trebek Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before. Arthur Guiterman We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison. Greg Walden Chase your passion, not your pension. Denis Waitley

We haven't been out in many of these countries helping them build infrastructure. How would

they look at us today if we had been there helping them with some of that, rather than just being the people who are going to bomb in Iraq and go to Afghanistan? Patty Murray Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked. Little Richard I know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am so if you don't like it, tough! Britney Spears Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. David Price Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you. Richard Hatch When you're a guest star on TV shows - particularly in the 1960s - you're always the villain. Robert Vaughn A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern

hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? Hugh Mackay Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. Ezra Pound Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. Penelope Lively Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. Henry Adams In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. Sid Caesar If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting. Solomon Short

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods

are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. Emma Goldman I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with. Josie Maran Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music. Ian Hunter We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts. Ruth St. Denis I have the nicest life in the world. Alan Bean I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types. Spencer Dryden Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are

they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be? Charles Edwards Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but even then they were quite relaxed about it. Richard Lester I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance. bell hooks There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. Karen Armstrong Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil. Laurell K. Hamilton There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying. Robert Mitchum Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass. Muhammad Iqbal

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a

scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something. Luke Wilson Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool. Britney Spears Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it. Jean Paul A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher. Sandy Koufax Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. Charles Kingsley However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel that the year ahead for me will be full of two of my favorite things: dance and acting. William Kempe

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is

the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my chess and accompanying me to tournaments. Alexandra Kosteniuk If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray. Joseph Smith, Jr. I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it. Josh Holloway Where there are friends there is wealth. Plautus I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries. Michael Ondaatje No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. Henry Adams

I put on such a good show, the story is outrageous, and people don't want

to hear that I'm basically a reasonable human being. As long as it continues to get me print, I'll continue to perform in an exuberant manner. James Ellroy If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. W. Somerset Maugham Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different. Nancy Banks Smith The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won. Charles Godfrey Leland Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result. Jean-Marie Le Pen Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way? Judy Holliday Westward, ever westward. Henry Wells

I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare

foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet. Brooke Burke The tax code is not the only area where the administration is helping the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It has spent $155 billion for an unnecessary war driven by fear. Dennis Kucinich Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. Josh Billings I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism. Aaron Eckhart Perfection is the child of time. Joseph Hall I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge. Jennifer Lopez In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney

general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. Harold H. Greene Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of. James Laughlin Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. Francis Schaeffer I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! R. L. Stine Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. James Freeman Clarke When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. Albert Brooks

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