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As they work hard for our children, America's teachers often reach into their own pockets

to make sure they have the best classroom supplies. I feel strongly that the federal government should help make up for their personal financial burden. John Warner There remains, however, the hope, at least in Russia, that, as sometimes happens in history, the memory of lost alternatives will one day inspire efforts to regain them. Stephen Cohen In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. Ellen G. White People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives. Jane Rule I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. J

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing.

But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. Richard M. Nixon Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. Jonathan Swift Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country. Vicente Fox The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Winston Churchill There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. Booker T. Washington People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests. Marian Wright Edelman A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. Stanley Kubrick

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to

declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. Louis D. Brandeis It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. Jim Rohn I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people. Richard Chamberlain Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all. Cathy Freeman My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10. Cornelia Funke I'm not doing this to be a pop star. I've had plenty of money and attention. I'm doing it for credibility. Lisa Marie Presley When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier. Roy E. Disney

We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and

I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. Dick Gregory Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. Ulysses S. Grant I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next. Sophie Ellis-Bextor I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! Nick Hornby When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. Samuel Rutherford All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions. Albert Einstein He who avoids complaint invites happiness. Abu Bakr

The idea of copyright did not exist in ancient times, when authors frequently copied other

authors at length in works of non-fiction. This practice was useful, and is the only way many authors' works have survived even in part. Richard Stallman I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Ella R. Bloor Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. John B. S. Haldane I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy. Phil Rizzuto There is a great correlation between music and images. Graham Nash That's why I believe that we must never fail to affirm that we are indeed one nation under God. Lee Greenwood And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters. Treat Williams

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in

a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. Matthew Arnold East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. William Kirby Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret. Lauren Graham Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. Charles Caleb Colton He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. Milan Kundera I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. Morton Gould When it draws near to witching

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold

this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Norman Vincent Peale The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do - they always reach. Lee Iacocca When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process. Anita Desai Feed the musician, and he's out of tune. George Crabbe I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. William Tecumseh Sherman Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us. Robinson Jeffers A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. Ralph Nader

Blair... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we

have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. Manfred von Richthofen They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide? Adrienne Rich Self-preservation is the first law of nature. Samuel Butler The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. Leo Buscaglia We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. Francis Bacon

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood

the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion. David Crane Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else. Mary Ritter Beard The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. Mohamed Al-Fayed Our priority must be to build a path towards balancing the budget, and we cannot tolerate growing deficits. Michael Crapo Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. Barbara Kruger Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. Andre Weil How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. John Burroughs

When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing.

Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow! Louise Nurding Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. William Alexander A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness. Mahatma Gandhi Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. Drew Barrymore The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. Brian Tracy The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely. Pope Benedict XVI HBO has 28 million subscribers, small

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in

order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture. Orrin Hatch The government would have preferred not to take a stand, but the constant presence of the Israeli-Arab conflict on our television screens made it an issue that could no longer be avoided. Jean-Marie Le Pen My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs. David K. E. Bruce Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. Alfred North Whitehead There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. Amelia Barr If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail. Ulysses S. Gr

I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to

stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. Emma Thompson In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best. Walter Bagehot Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. Franklin D. Roosevelt People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. Bob Dylan Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. Horace I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. Sidney Altman I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself. Ronald Reagan

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions

of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. Alain de Botton What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. David Baker I want them to listen to me for what I am saying. And I think the best way to do that is to sniff my armpits, and like, sit and burp every now and then. Michelle Rodriguez Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Plautus But my favorite work is always my next piece. Joey Skaggs The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. Robert Burns Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits. Ginny Brown-Waite

How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with

it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid. Joan Chen The most positive step is to try to expand the employment base by making it, if not economically friendly, at least not economically disastrous, for studios to take on deficits. Dick Wolf Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. Jimi Hendrix I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. Fred F. Fielding Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. Herbert Kaufman Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be. Ahmet Necdet Sezner I tried to contribute to th

Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make

you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling. Uma Thurman I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known. Hubert H. Humphrey But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. Fareed Zakaria Their rage supplies them with weapons. Virgil The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. Saint Ignatius The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. Sun Tzu One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. Victor Hugo

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try

to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. Alma Guillermoprieto People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business. Dave Mason Some people never contribute anything positive to society, they may even drain our resources, but most of us try to do something better, to give back. Martin Yan My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors. Franklin Knight Lane Idealist: a cynic in the making. Irving Layton There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life. Pamela Anderson A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school. Deborah Bull

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life,

there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. Christopher Dawson I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink. Dana Plato Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain. George Crabbe Since September 11, 2001, many in this nation and this Congress have a deeper appreciation for the importance of the sacrifices made by our law enforcement officers. Jerry Costello Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. Nadine Gordimer Feedback is the breakfast o

Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability

to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed. Randy West The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. Tom Hayden We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas. John Redwood If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself. Beverley Mitchell Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. Louis Kronenberger Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it. Loretta Young I like exercise. I like a healthy body. Erin Gray

It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the

hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining. James Hogg In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? Mary Harris Jones It's not necessary, in order to be a complete person, that I have a man. It's not the end-all, be-all of my life. Cher Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time. James Cash Penney We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. Gunter Grass Mathematicians are born, not made. Henri Poincare For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy. Erma Bombeck

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment

industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. Allan Bloom Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography. George Eastman Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. Winston Churchill We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law. Robin Gross Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent. Miguel de Icaza It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E. L. Doctorow One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's. Mahatma Gandhi

If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the

context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer. Robert M. Gates They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever. Mike Judge The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want. Bo Bennett Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move. Ossie Davis Because we're human beings, we're not always going to be perfect. Benny Hinn A good novel editor is invisible. Terri Windling The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get. William Beebe

I certainly would have regretted not getting into wrestling. It's been very lucrative for me

and I've been fortunate to get into it and make money and not do anything stupid where I invested in something that collapsed. Owen Hart Being nominated is a great thrill, and we like to say that all four of us were nominated, which means that our director, Anthony Page was nominated four times. Bill Irwin I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable. Laurie Lee How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. Lou Holtz Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history. Michael Scheuer A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. Desiderius Erasmus But all of this success came at the end of a long climb. Michael N. Castle

It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and

knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace. Jonathan Shapiro Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. Sai Baba Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious! David Eddings When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters. Martin Yan The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge. Edward Levi The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Thomas Kuhn Profits on the exchange are th

Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men

and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree. Richard Harris Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle. Lisa Leslie To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Hannah Arendt It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven. Matthew Henry I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good. Richard King Natural selection is not evolution. Ronald Fisher Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old. Bill Walton

When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My

idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself. Edward Steichen A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't. Joe Manchin You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home. James Lee Burke I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. Neil Sheehan You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. Steve Jobs To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. Earl Warren Man is only great when he acts from passion. Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We

are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family. Bob Taft We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Roald Amundsen Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. Roger von Oech Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country. Ian Rush Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. Yvonne Craig No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo. Bruce Hornsby

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards

an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. Henry Flynt It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there. Charlie Haden The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. Earl Warren Truth is the glue that holds government together. Gerald R. Ford When you confront a problem you begin to solve it. Rudy Giuliani What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. Mignon McLaughlin I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that. Luther Allison

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus

chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. Stockwell Day I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is. Anthony A. Williams After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. Albert Camus A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. Simone Weil The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Paul R. Ehrlich A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. Alfred Hitchcock

The priest is Christ's slave, and Christ himself took the form of a slave and

became obedient to death. So the priest in serving human needs lives a Godward life, possessed by God and witnessing that only when lives are utterly possessed by God do they find their true freedom. Arthur Middleton You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. Jonathan Carroll A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new and startling methods. Robert Henri I concentrate on preparing to swim my race and let the other swimmers think about me, not me about them. Amanda Beard It's the safety valve of middle life, and the solace of age. Mary Roberts Rinehart I'm tired, but proud. Norman Rockwell A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. Charles Kettering

Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but

really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. Helen Fielding Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. Raoul Vaneigem I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair. Cameron Diaz I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. Salman Rushdie Drugs have played no significant factor in my life. Dennis Brown I am not anyone's enemy. Sun Myung Moon For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. Samuel Richardson

Although it was in primitive times and differently called the Lord's day or Sunday, yet

it was never denominated the Sabbath; a name constantly appropriate to Saturday, or the Seventh day both by sacred and ecclesiastical writers. Charles Buck Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success. Vanilla Ice You know, there are a lot of would-be governors of Texas sitting around today who never took the opportunity to get into a race when the time was right. Laura Bush I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office. Dick Cheney Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. Idi Amin I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich. Vivian Campbell On one occasion in 1987 the security police came looking for me because of a dra

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread -

but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow. Sarah Ban Breathnach There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out. Johnny Vegas Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then. Lindsay Wagner People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories. Chinua Achebe Every single art form is involved in film, in a way. Sydney Pollack Just when did I get to the point when staying at a hotel wasn't fun? Ira Glass God is a concept by which we measure our pain. John Lennon

Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the

companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations. Mario Monti Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will. John D. MacDonald I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. Clint Eastwood It sure is hell to be president. Harry S Truman Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way. Chubby Checker We must not let daylight in upon the magic. Walter Bagehot It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. Andy Goldsworthy

I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is,

I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans. Clayton Moore Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods. Andrew Wiles In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum. Joseph de Maistre The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Frank Lloyd Wright Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. George Jones Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I&#

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support

me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts. Thora Birch I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work. Andrew Greeley All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better. Jerry Springer When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes. W. H. Auden I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. Dinah Sheridan War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle. Thomas Carlyle We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range. John Eaton

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem

with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller. Susan Estrich I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important. Roberto Benigni Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses. Seamus Heaney Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you. John Owen I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top. Victoria Jackson If only I could find a guy who wasn't in his 70s to talk to me about white cranes, I'

For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential

family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy. Andrew Morton I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it. Bernard Cornwell I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name. Adela Florence Nicolson Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. Oliver Goldsmith The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. Irving Babbitt Even Stravinsky does not evoke the same public affection as Verdi. Charles Rosen Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many

areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles. Zig Ziglar I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?' Jay Leno Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us. Owen Hart I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour. Nigella Lawson Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves. Jean Guitton I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. Drew Barrymore The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. John Kenneth Galbraith

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is

to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. Ramakrishna Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. Albert Schweitzer Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. William S. Burroughs I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. Alexandre Dumas I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want. Renee Fleming A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr. We suffered a setback and there were too many trades until Dave Taylor came along and Charlie Simmer. Marce

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration

and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. Leon Trotsky The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture. Suzanne Fields Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. C. S. Lewis The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. Fisher Ames A liar should have a good memory. Quintilian We can create the ultimate job security by becoming less dependent on the organization for which we work and more dependent on our own resources. Bo Bennett Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity. Rick Perry

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors

I would imagine playing these characters. And the only thing I could ever say is: I have such a clear idea of these characters that they'd have to play themselves. Michael Cunningham A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far. Alice Meynell I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little. Emmy Rossum We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. Josephine Hart You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. Ernie Banks Transportation funding is a win-win for everyone involved. Corrine Brown Life is to blame for everything. Robert Musil

I don't know who I touch and who I don't. I work hard trying to

make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don't have any secrets. I don't know the reasons I've been so well received. Adam Sandler We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us. Bill Condon In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show. Timothy Leary If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome. Bill Dixon What happens in the heart simply happens. Ted Hughes Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does. Jane Austen It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance. Bernard Cornwe

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people

in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think just as importantly we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. Bob Keeshan I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life. Carl Jung I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus. Cheech Marin The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. Sydney Smith The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. Marcus Terentius Varro Take heed of critics even when they ar

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers,

so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. James C. Maxwell What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat? Al Yankovic If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. John Bright I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress. Kristin Scott Thomas I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have. Chuck Close Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Washington Irving

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've

got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out. Alan Moore But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. Fred F. Fielding A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself. Bo Bennett It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself. Joseph Joubert Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! Paul J. Meyer Every child in America deserves high-quality healt

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than

ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper. Gary Webb I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset. Neve Campbell Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today. Jinato Hu The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. Charles Darwin The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. Friedrich Nietzsche This is the most jo

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with

emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. Benjamin Disraeli I do think that we are facing a crisis in our democracy. As true patriots, each and every one of us has to speak up, speak out, and change those in charge. Our democracy depends upon it. Robert Greenwald In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. Leonardo da Vinci You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script. Curtis Hanson The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. Anthony Trollope The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. Reggie Jackson I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. Elizabeth Moon

Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type

of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. William James Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services. Bill Delahunt Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well. Carrie Underwood Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. H. L. Mencken The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. Bruce Barton Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. Oliver Herford It was only a few years ago tha

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its

fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny. Mohammed Omar Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. Major Taylor Additionally, borrowing a page from U.S. foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile. Timothy McVeigh I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. Napoleon Bonaparte There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. Daniel Bernoulli If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. Nicholas Mosley The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hang

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids

black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. Betty Carter The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. Benjamin Disraeli Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. James Allen The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance. Alex Winter When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed. Jennifer Aniston Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create. Juliette Lewis It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by other

What is special about VOIP is that it's just another thing you can do on

the Internet, whereas it is the only thing - or nearly the only thing with the exception of the dial-up modem and fax - that you can do on the public switched telephone network. Vint Cerf When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words. Henry Norris Russell I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need! Jesse Helms Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris We played the same thing in Europe we played in the States. Luther Allison I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. Gary Sinise No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves. E. W. Howe

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people

see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart. John Woo The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Thomas Huxley Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries. Kenneth Clarke I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping. Stella McCartney I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. Frank Auerbach Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware. Ken Olsen The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading th

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love

about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. Christina Ricci People make these comments all the time. They talk about this with their loved ones every day. People's feedings - tube feedings - are stopped across this country every day. Michael Schiavo It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind. Travis Tritt Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right. Richard Perle There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. Henry David Thoreau My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too. Mary Pierce When y

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to

write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record. Keith Urban Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. Cyril Falls Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. Joan Crawford The result showed the wisdom of your orders. John Bigelow His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. Thomas A. Edison Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. Nicolas Chamfort

When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are

legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. Robert Bork I would argue that television and particularly the BBC were instrumental in puffing up the Royal Family to a level where they were inflated out of all, all proportion to their relevance on the national scene. Andrew Morton A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. Gilbert K. Chesterton He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months? Eva Braun I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain. Shania Twain Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. Robert Green Ingersoll Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that y

Don't divide the world into 'them' and 'us.' Avoid infatuation with or resentment of the

press, the Congress, rivals, or opponents. Accept them as facts. They have their jobs and you have yours. Donald Rumsfeld The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.' Neale Donald Walsch Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image. Cameron Diaz Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. Tom Daschle My toughest fight was with my first wife. Muhammad Ali I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing. Jimmy Page

There are definitely people who are stuck in the '60s and there are definitely people

who think I am and it's just not true. I was performing for a long time before the '60s and I'll be doing exciting interesting things for along time to come. Petula Clark To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. George Bernard Shaw 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old. Alcaeus I ended up being the governor of a very ag state, Nebraska. Mike Johanns Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers. Omar Bongo

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that

exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision. Thomas A. Edison To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. Catharine MacKinnon A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. Anthony Hecht As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. Dave Parnas The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes. Washington Irving One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyon

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart

credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power. Major Owens Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. Dennis Prager The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it. Alphonso Jackson Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not. John Kenneth Galbraith Everything in this world has a hidden meaning. Nikos Kazantzakis I never really did any disco dancing. Barry Gibb Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. Jerry Cantrell

I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the

things that were said about me, and said that people would say that it was just for the money, and it wasn't about the money. It was about what he did to me. And I knew I was telling the truth. Paula Jones I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God. John Nelson Darby The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. Walter Lippmann It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends. John Ruskin We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. Charles Kettering Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit. Luther Allison It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the

most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. Terence Fisher The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities. Ethan Coen My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore. Goh Chok Tong You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. Napoleon Hill Publishing a protocol under the name Atom that tries to capture all of the prior art in this stage and might provide a good basis for winding down the syndication wars. Tim Bray If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that

there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. Edward Dahlberg As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that. Stanley Crouch If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. Russell Lynes And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet. Julie Bishop It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. Sophia Loren A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. Paracelsus The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather

that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass. Karl Marx If you feel like there's something out there that you're supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. Wanda Sykes Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things. Jeremy Spencer Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost. Martina Navratilova My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair. Rodney Dangerfield Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. James Naismith

I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must

have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas. Abbey Lincoln I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio. Al Lewis It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. W. H. Auden What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do. Arnold Palmer The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. Peter Coyote If anything's progressive, then we mak

The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own

black community. And what we had done is, we wanted to write a program that was straightforward to the people. We didn't want to give a long dissertation. Bobby Seale You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story. Chester Brown Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. August Wilson Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Henri Poincare The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth. John Nelson Darby Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. Martin Farquhar Tupper

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it

work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art. Sydney Pollack If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Frank It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. Virginia Woolf A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. Mignon McLaughlin Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. Garrison Keillor Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. Hosea Ballou The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. Joseph Wood Krutch

The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist

home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes. James W. Black That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers. Ed Markey Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. Robert Louis Stevenson Where in the Bible does it say I have to drive a Honda? Benny Hinn Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. Bertrand Russell I've deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids. Robbie Williams We should have a banquet on the day haters die. Ovadia Yosef

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a

form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Edmund Burke We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves. Tim Conway I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. Abdul Qadeer Khan Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. Margaret Spellings Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been. Stephen Harper A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one. Henry Ford The proper route to an understanding of the world is a

It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The

positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,. Alexis Bledel If the people should elect, they will never fail to prefer some man of distinguished character, or services; some man, if he might so speak of continental reputation. Gouverneur Morris Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. Isaac Asimov Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. Sophocles When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand. Pete Rose I actually did use to sell shoes. Alex Winter It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies. Mike Leigh

For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting

saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her. Randy Travis I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy. Faith Ringgold For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning. Conrad Veidt Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening', you know the answer is going to be pretty clear. Ann Coulter Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. Publilius Syrus It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do th

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I

am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Philippe Halsman All my musical foundations go back to the age of 3. My family tell me that I used to listen to the old crystal set, then go to the piano and pick out the tune that I just heard. George Shearing Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed. Abdullah II of Jordan I always want to write something better than the last book. Tracy Kidder Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Will Durst If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Moshe Dayan We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing t

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece

with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions. John Yoo All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. William Herschel I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out. Lisa Marie Presley Most of the auditions I went on, I passed up the projects because I just wasn't interested. When I read A Knight's Tale, that was that. I knew I wanted to do this movie. Shannyn Sossamon Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them. Jean Paul About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it. Josh Billings Love begins at home, an

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain

ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish. David Trimble You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap or the soreness or all the aches and pains, and continue to play for a long, long time. Gordie Howe The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times. Angus Wilson Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Unknown I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself. Nastassja Kinski To shun one's cross is to make it heavier. Henri Frederic Amiel The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it

must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality. Cliff Shaw Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. Eugene V. Debs You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid. Sugar Ray Robinson The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. John Ruskin The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. Sam Houston The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. Thomas Hardy It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body. Satchel Paig

I would find myself backing away from all of the 'isms', all of the communities.

I have always been able to be misused by every community But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected. Anthony Braxton Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has. Roger Penrose We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality. John W. Snow I've got a lot of ham in me. Lionel Barrymore We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. Mickey Rivers If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart. Rasmus Lerdorf

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current,

they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on. David Lynch I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me. Michael J. Fox There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. Shirley Chisholm Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace. Ginny Brown-Waite Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. William Jay Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets. Henry Ford I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog. Dan Rathe

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get

so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. Johnny Winter A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in. Anita Brookner My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris. Norman Rockwell I followed him at the time and thought he was hysterical. He was the first serial killer, a new kettle of fish, because we didn't have the detection techniques in those days. Matthew Bright You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do. Rebecca Harding Davis Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. Stephen Carter I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired gold

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I

looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life. Sarah Hughes Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad. Conrad Burns Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. Isadora Duncan The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass I've upped my standards. Now, up yours. Pat Paulsen Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. Horace Walpole If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. Marty Allen

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up,

and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. Abraham Lincoln The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. John McKinley The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA. Vint Cerf The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine. John Stuart Mill The only thing I am afraid of is fear. Arthur Wellesley I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control. Muriel Spark

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and

spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. Anne Perry It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. Alice Walker I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor. Tom Sizemore I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? Johnny Unitas My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair. Julia Roberts Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. Susan B. Anthony Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life

fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. Isaac Asimov To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections. Peter Schuyler The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. Bill Rodgers The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way. Herbie Hancock War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler I am convinced that your Mayor must take the leadership role in education too. Alan Autry If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom. Peter Straub

It's time that America's government lived by the same values as America's families. It's time

we invested in America's future and made sure our people have the skills to compete and thrive in a 21st century economy. That's what Democrats believe. Harry Reid When I moved to Stanford I began to pursue the line of research I have been following ever since, namely trying to understand the larger implications of fractional quantum hall discovery. Robert B. Laughlin I can't tell you how much we laughed on the set to have Alec Guinness in a scene with a big, furry dog that's flying a space ship. Mark Hamill Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. Igor Stravinsky Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. Samuel Johnson Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. Ayn Rand He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. Edga

Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking

lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun. Bill Walton I think Jim Taylor was very underrated, never hear much about him. We played Green Bay every year in exhibition, and generally we played them every couple of years in regular season. And I always thought he was a fierce competitor. Bob Lilly I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It's not funny! It was real. Barry Watson Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating. Ron Fairly The eyes those silent tongues of love. Miguel de Cervantes Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. Joan D. Vinge O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. William Shakespeare

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most

abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. Arthur Conan Doyle I knew from a young age that I could sing and it was impressed upon me that if I got a classically trained education in voice, it would serve as a foundation for whatever I chose to do. Shuler Hensley I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. Ed Wynn I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. Pete Rose Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. Woody Allen It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. Philip Schaff Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has

united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!! Doug Davidson We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. Pete Domenici The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one. Nastassja Kinski I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm. Guillermo del Toro You cannot put the same shoe on every foot. Publilius Syrus We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious. Thomas Traherne

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had

great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect. Michael N. Castle I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it. Carrie Underwood I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself. Anita Hill You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group. Bruce Johnston Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad. Morgan Brittany Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. William R. Alger You don't have to be noisy to be effective. Phil Crosby

You're just sort of searching for this 'thing' and sometimes you get it and sometimes

you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo. John Abercrombie Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility. Rick Perry I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder. Thomas Starr King To get along with me, don't increase my tension. Ty Cobb There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession. Tim Bishop If there is no God, everything is permitted. Fyodor Dostoevsky They're not poodles, they're art. Rachael Leigh

I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and

I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role. Gerard Butler I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience. Lorraine Bracco The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. Virgil Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace. Morihei Ueshiba Democracy is the w

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a

social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same. Thomas Paine No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. Bill Cosby I never met a kid I liked. W. C. Fields You can only start a boyband if you kill one of the ones already out there. Joel Madden This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news. Rita Moreno Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. Arthur Goldberg

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the

wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. James Keller Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. Erma Bombeck If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. Norman Mailer Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil. Mary Wollstonecraft We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching. Roy L. Smith While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive. Henry Kissinger Books are not men and yet they stay alive. Henry Ward Beecher

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable,

and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. James K. Polk When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right. Steve Marriott I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong. Cokie Roberts The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Diane Arbus The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. Omar Bongo I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. Robert Barnes If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. Richard M.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which

was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know. John Deacon Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. Zack de la Rocha He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them. Charles Kingsley Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it? Richard M. Daley Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato. Gail Porter We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and air

It has long been known that the chemical atomic weight of hydrogen was greater than

one-quarter of that of helium, but so long as fractional weights were general there was no particular need to explain this fact, nor could any definite conclusions be drawn from it. Francis William Aston These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. Jones Very When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. Paul Cezanne The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. W. Somerset Maugham Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors. Major Taylor A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. Honore de Balzac I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness t

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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