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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been

bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. Oswald Spengler I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor. David R. Brower I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. Dirk Benedict A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. Jean de la Bruyere You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge. Ernst Zundel Who should have spent their money on a brain implant? Anne Robinson Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong. Terry Pratchett

It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn

how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience. D. W. Griffith It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day. Andrew Wiles We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly. Judy Holliday The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven. Frederick William Robertson If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. Phil Jackson What we wanted from an agent depended on what he brought in. Markus Wolf I get very driven by certain themes and ideas. Alex Winter

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary

persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Nicolaus Copernicus Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Ed Koch Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. Oprah Winfrey I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op. William Baldwin Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume. Sean Young No clock is more regular than the belly. Francois Rabelais At least is was a victory and at least we won. Bobby Moore

I just always want a new producer. I'm going to have a new producer on

the next one. Because I'm the same person, and I feel like, I know I'm going to bring to it a certain sensibility that's me, and I want to have something different coming out on each album. Catie Curtis There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States. Preston Manning Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government. Rush Limbaugh Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. Jim Hightower You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. Doc Hastings The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes yo...

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural

strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them. Kent Conrad Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough. Richard M. DeVos My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. Ethan Hawke I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath. John Harvey Kellogg And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong I do not expect that homeopathy will ever be established as a legitimate form of treatment, but I do expect that it will continue to be popular. James Randi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all

these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that. John Robinson I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey. John Eaton To me, there is nothing better than me going into the studio with a live band and hearing those violins and that echo and that sound. I mean I loved it. Bobby Vinton A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery In the U.S., with very few exceptions, actresses older than 35 are simply discarded. Amy Irving When one teaches, two learn. Robert Half I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything. Jack Kelley

I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn

everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment, and kept me flying respectful of my machine and always alert in the cockpit. Chuck Yeager If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves. John Bates Clark Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. John Ruskin The whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star. Francis William Aston They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out. Lester Bowie I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Mahatma Gandhi As you make your bed, so you must lie in ...

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares

and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest. Anna Kournikova Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? Barbra Streisand I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. Silvia Colloca I never forgive, but I always forget. Arthur Balfour I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. Alan Brien The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. Arthur Schopenhauer If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids. Keith Emerson

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of

it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes. Algernon Sidney America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid. Robert Ashley We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. Bill Maher You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. Grace Paley I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink. Joe DiMaggio Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but...

I'm cute - and God I hate that. Because that's not cool. I'm like your

niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It's the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I'm an everyday, normal girl. Kelly Clarkson I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet. Drew Curtis In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness? Jamie Foxx Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal. Catherine Keener It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Tony Robbins Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. Bob Etheridge We all live with the objectiv...

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time

to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens. Samuel Gompers Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. Marilyn Hacker When I define polarities in my work, I actually create the space between things. I point to the question I am actually interested in, without naming it. Alva Noto Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. Ted Engstrom I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business. Erin Moran My favorite wines are Zinfandels. Thomas Keller No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. Richard Petty

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That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't

tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me. Kelly Lynch I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. John Walker Lindh Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be. Donna Douglas It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Friedrich Schiller We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. James H. Douglas, Jr. It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. Gerald F. Lieberman

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out

on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. Suzy Bogguss Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. John James Audubon As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. Norman Wisdom Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. Huey Newton Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. Frank Moore Colby

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all

students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Dianne Feinstein You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince. Michael Scheuer I'm a horrible public speaker. Bill Condon Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. Charles Simmons The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets. Wayne Dyer It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it. George Murphy

I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the

first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. Ted Shackelford Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole. Trent Dilfer My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. Edward Gibbon Reason is the enemy of faith. Martin Luther When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. Willie Mays Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax

was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed. Alan Keyes In the time honored tradition of email, just ignore the question. John Dobbin The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. Kenneth L. Pike All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. Thomas Aquinas Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. Wayne Dyer A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. Sigmund Freud

I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize

about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. Sigourney Weaver The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business. Joe Nichols I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. Anton Seidl We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to b...

Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay

marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off. Gail Collins I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.' Michelle Forbes Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader. Douglas Conant 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ...

The biggest difference between L.A. and my hometown in Georgia is when Georgia goes to

sleep, L.A. wakes up. So, like, in LaGrange, when people are going to sleep at 10, 11 to get up in the morning, we're just getting dressed to go out. Elijah Kelley It's the invincible arrogance of Europe's elites that gets me. These are people who have seen the euro collapse. These are people who are presiding over a migration crisis on their borders, and yet do they ever acknowledge that they need to change? No. They say they need more integration, more of our money, more control over this country. Michael Gove Every social media post should have a beautiful graphic. If there are two identical stories, the one with the beautiful graphic will always win. Guy Kawasaki I'm training at Phase 1 Sports in Las Vegas, and it's a very high-end training facility for a lot of top-level athletes. I have been able to add a lot of power and the endurance to keep that power going. I've always been powerful, but the muscle conditioning I've been able to add has be...

My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the

Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles. Warren Giles The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot. Marshawn Lynch Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are. Jean-Georges Vongerichten Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' Peter Diamandis I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight. Britt Daniel I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that. Adrian Tomine I love to give. I've been a giver all my life. Tyler Perry I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Peter Capaldi

The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson

has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.' Taylor Hanson Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same. Montel Williams My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community. Mike Huckabee Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things. Daryl Hall To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. Nelson Mandela Well the first order of government is to preserve the public order and safety. Bob Wise Getting stopped for drunk driving in those days might mean that your entir...