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I've always said that one night, I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere,

I'm standing on grass, and it's raining, and I'm with the person I love, and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to. Drew Barrymore We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another. John le Carre I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. Bill Cosby Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? Tanith Lee The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me. Kate Capshaw Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. Edith Sitwell The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces th...

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is

the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. Agnes Martin Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement. Peter Weir It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. Evan Hunter I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself. Drea De Matteo The Republican Party is not inclusive. Charles Evers If you fell down yesterday, stand up today. H. G. Wells Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field. Jerry Stiller

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again.

Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly. Gordon Moore Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment. Charles Stanley It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. Matthew Arnold Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Ludwig von Mises A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Helen Rowland I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. Mary Crosby The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians. Tony Benn

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry. Charles Taze Russell The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean. Chen Shui-bian I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused. Rachel Field There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. Robert Wyatt The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system. Edwin Powell Hubble A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by ...

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of

love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible. Nelson Algren I didn't think that a career in theater was very realistic so I thought the only thing I could make money doing and still be somewhat artistic was, god help me, advertising. Liev Schreiber At Camp One we were met by Director of Public Works Warwick Greene, grim and grimy. He has been working himself to death to make this transportation plan a success. William Cameron Forbes By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. Robert A. Heinlein There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. Charles Horton Cooley There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live. Rip Torn If you compare ...

You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out

issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month. James Daly I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones. Patti Page I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces. Dan Rather And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?' Rudyard Kipling Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs. Corrine Brown Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice. Miguel de Cervantes I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tou...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in

the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds. John Ruskin You make a lot of films, do you? You make a lot of films yourself? Yeah, I'd like to see you make a film first before you get to talk about it. What a jerk. George Clooney There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves. Tom Wolfe Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Elizabeth Bowen Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. Alexander Pope Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive. Kinky Friedman I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money. Marlon Brando

Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all

falls within the arch of national interest. There will be windows of opportunity, but they will open and close quickly. Chuck Hagel They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade. Keith Emerson We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast. Mark Hoppus The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. William Shakespeare Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth. Hans Kung In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet. Will Smith

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run

in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. Claudia Black By creating a Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, we will give local governments a framework for working together on an issue that affects our whole state. Roy Barnes We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. Neville Chamberlain If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it. Norton Simon Taken out of context I must seem so strange. Ani DiFranco The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger. Henry Walter Bates I don't like people looking at me; I hate the attention. Cathy Freeman

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I

mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me. Jerry Lawler I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US. Mario Monti I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell. William Styron There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature. Stephen Hawking Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose. Bo Bennett You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can kill a revolutionary but you...

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record

player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything. Will Oldham What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. J. G. Ballard Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices. Peter Lewis Allen All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind. Logan Pearsall Smith I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. Andrew Wiles What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain? Marquis De Custine Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. George Sanders

When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed

technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out. Frank Stella I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials. Scott McCallum Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. Lady Bird Johnson Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. Robert Englund Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand. Rodney Dangerfield I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener. Roger Sessions

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves

first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Havelock Ellis I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor. Michael Scheuer Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. Arthur Schopenhauer Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself. Charlie Chaplin Study carefully the law of cause and effect. Vernon Howard It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason f...

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want

to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old. Arnold Schwarzenegger It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp. Michael Shanks So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices. Merton Miller We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce. John Thune Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless. John Wilkes Booth Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. Nikola Tesla The United States is the leader o...

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating

attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world. Ed Markey A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable. Heather Donahue A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. Adlai E. Stevenson I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'. Debra Winger It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. Joseph Stiglitz Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. ...

I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around

to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice. Kim Novak We have a picture for how complexity arises, because if the universe is computationally capable, maybe we shouldn't be so surprised that things are so entirely out of control. Seth Lloyd But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts. Kirsten Dunst My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force. Jennifer Garner I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up! Patsy Kelly So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others. Elijah Wood Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's. Jerry Stiller

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the

tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. Felix Frankfurter And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble. Jason Statham We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet. Vint Cerf I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake. Alyssa Milano The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Henry David Thoreau Extreme complication is contrary to art. Claude Debussy No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. Garrett Hardin

We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting

it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that. Steve Burns Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. Bryant H. McGill Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. Jean Baudrillard The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. Jane Wagner Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted. Roger Corman I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria. Sting

Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human

family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care. Sam Brownback Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf. Gilbert K. Chesterton The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all. Jon Crosby There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths. Friedrich Nietzsche At my age flowers scare me. George Burns The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Mary Browne Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. Donald Trump

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when

I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare. Vladimir Horowitz Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. Anthony Braxton Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. Brent Scowcroft I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you. Josh Lucas It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'. Danny Boyle I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist....

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape

with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. Huey Newton The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. Ellsworth Huntington The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. Owen D. Young I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything. Lydia Lunch At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces. Bill Walton Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister. John Sebastian The space within becomes the reality of the building. Frank Ll...

It's about time we all faced up to the truth. If we accept the radical

homosexual agenda, be it in the military or in marriage or in other areas of our lives, we are utterly destroying the concept of family. Alan Keyes Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. Mark Twain Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. Michel de Montaigne Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. Charles Caleb Colton Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. James Shirley

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to

join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on. Luis Figo With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured. Dana Plato Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Julie Delpy Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. Matt Damon I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time. Aileen Wuornos Integrity is the essence of everything successful. R. Buckminster Fuller To announce that there must be n...

When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing

most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt. Clive Cussler For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby? Haniel Long Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are. Andrea Dworkin Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. Luc de Clapiers The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless. Bram Cohen There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things. Laurel ...

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a

broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've always had a very happy experience writing for them. Toby Young Too many people feel that where you start out dictates where you should end up. I was on welfare and just shy of 19 when my first daughter was born, but I was encouraged to take advantage of my ability and drive and remained in school. Gwen Moore The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks! Robbie Williams Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by. Sam Shepard You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? Benjamin Franklin Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. Ethel Watts Mumford

Interested listeners have only to hear the recording to find out if those guys, who

go to such pains to undervalue my work, are right. All people have to do is listen to realize it is a beautiful record. Bill Dixon You look at the world around you, and you take it apart into all its components. Then you take some of those components, throw them away, and plug in different ones, start it up and see what happens. Frederik Pohl More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him. Ramakrishna I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place. William Bell You can only hold your stomach in for so many years. Burt Reynolds Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind. Hussein of Jordan When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier. John Deacon

But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and

left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home. Georg Solti The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated. Peter Malkin You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. Ellen DeGeneres What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians. Albert Camus I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it. Moira Kelly Endure the present, and watch for better things. Virgil My weight went up and down like a yo-yo. Judith Light

Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're

crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand. Robert G. Allen Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. Pope Benedict XVI Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours. Spalding Gray Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. D. H. Lawrence My feeling is, well, if it's my money, I have a right to judge. Rick Santorum Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. Nat Friedman

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need.

It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy. Norm Coleman I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs. Ving Rhames Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition. Bette Davis Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate. Gavin Newsom Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. Wendy Wasserstein I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know? John Saxon

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If

you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. George Edward Woodberry The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity. Lee R. Raymond Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone. John Maynard Keynes Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Albert Einstein I can't wait to front my band with these new songs and play for fans, but I've decided to keep my day job too. Richard Marx I think like any marriage, especially when you've had divorced parents like myself; you want to try even harder to make it work. Princess Diana Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill

When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and

so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this. Susan Estrich Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. Roseanne Barr Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. Philip James Bailey Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. Thomas Dekker First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. Andre Weil I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Julien Green

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them:

for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. Horace Walpole Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. E. O. Wilson He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. Richard Hooker We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds, including legal grounds. Igor Ivanov But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out. John Gay Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. Eric Berne What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a...

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been

brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. John F. Kennedy I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. Billy Ray Cyrus I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein. Michael Bergin There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs. Jean Kerr Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. Eric Bentley Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate. Mich...

Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and nobody heard from him or got a

response to orders. At this point Rod Walker looked him up and found he was living in a commune and seemed to be dropping out of the hobby. Fred Davis When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. Rick Moody It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. John Locke Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience. Robert South The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got

the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service. Fritz Hollings It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. Mike Honda You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness. Joy Page A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded. Tyne Daly Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. Maurice Maeterlinck Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. Peter Steele It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. Michael Crichton

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of

the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American. Pete Seeger So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. Emily Mortimer I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship. Michelle Trachtenberg Life is always at some turning point. Irwin Edman Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. George Bernard Shaw That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. William Wordsworth Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African

Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities. Michael N. Castle The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda. Dan Quayle Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love. Lord Byron One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. Louis-Ferdinand Celine I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. Yogi Berra The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy. Magic Johnson Thoug...

Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business

a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it. Walter Hill 2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve. Baldwin Spencer There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life. Frank Langella I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is. Don Bluth I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. Nicholas Sparks Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. Brigham Young I'm not trying to be some kind of un...

Along with that ongoing process Sinn Fein took a decision to establish a peace commission

which had the responsibility to travel around the country to receive submissions from the general public, also our opponents. Martin McGuinness I'm always most excited about the job I'm doing at the present, and that's especially true about 'Price' because of my respect for the show and it's production team. Randy West I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestley Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. St. Jerome The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. F. Scott Fitzgerald Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. Michael Novak This product is a compromise, and the nature of compromise is that you don't get everything you want. Conrad Burns

I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess,

so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. Ryan Gosling What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. Simon Travaglia The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me. John Pomfret I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now. Frank Dobson Being so honest in my writing is cathartic. Brian Molko He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. Saint Augustine It is easier to get into something than to get out of it. D...

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find

that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it. David Deutsch I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own. Jimmy Carl Black The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. Doris Humphrey Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. C. Wright Mills A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. Edith Hamilton It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them. Miranda Otto The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of wa...

One of the jokes on our flight is that, if we have a normal entry

day going, the plan is for me... to actually take the orbiter first and fly it for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then hand it on over to Scooter. Duane G. Carey There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself. Elmer Bernstein I love snowboarding, but I would never want to do it competitively or at a professional level. Snowboarding is a spawn of skating, and skating is my passion. Tony Hawk Men and women want to do a good job, and if they are provided the proper environment, they will do so. William Reddington Hewlett Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. Allen Weinstein I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed. Jason Statham Reverie is not a min...

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When

errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House. Donald Rumsfeld She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty. Ernestine Rose A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. Dean Koontz History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight D. Eisenhower I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the background singers of Barry White and I built a choir around that. Della Reese I applaud my mother now for getting me through that time and making me believe in myself. Leah Remini It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. ...

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own

way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. Albert Schweitzer I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. Dan Millman Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. Soren Kierkegaard You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone. Robert Hunter If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature. Phyllis Battelle The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. Daniel J. Boorstin A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people. Edward Furlong

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on

the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. Simone Weil One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees. Marcus Tullius Cicero We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much. John Kenneth Galbraith Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. William Davenant God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. Alfred Korzybski And generally the shows I'm in fail really big. Megan Gallagher If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. J. Paul Getty

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even

agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that. Barbara Boxer The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams. Bill Klem Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off. Dick Wolf All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. Bob Dylan The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago. Al Lewis The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own. W. H. Auden Never break your putter and your driver in the same round or you're dead. Tommy Bolt

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this.

I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed. Peter Bogdanovich I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. Laurell K. Hamilton What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. Earle Brown Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. Harry S Truman You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. Jessica Mitford As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. H. L. Mencken

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've

got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage. Rip Torn I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while. Mick Taylor I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night. Liam Gallagher Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. John F. Kennedy I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom. Thomas Haden Church The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frederic Amiel When words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine

I do not want our children and grandchildren to live in a world where everyday

they fear some regional strongman with weapons of mass destruction. We need to send a message to these future would-be bullies: you will not be allowed to threaten the world. George Voinovich One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. Albert II of Belgium I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block. R. L. Stine What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? Henry James The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician. Kenneth Edmonds A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling. Otto von Bismarck The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. Zoltan Kodaly

I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for

five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God. Aaron Eckhart The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations. Nelson A. Miles Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. Abbie Hoffman If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. Benjamin Franklin You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect. Charles Spurgeon The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight...

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that

have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war. George Galloway In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. Aiden Wilson Tozer New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God. Tim LaHaye The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. Sun Myung Moon The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things. Walt Disney I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart. Buddy Hackett

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security

of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed. Larry Flynt Every day Saddam remains in power with chemical weapons, biological weapons, and the development of nuclear weapons is a day of danger for the United States. Joe Lieberman I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. Will Smith My first album came out in 1979. Teena Marie Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. John Dingell Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. William James Going to car racing school was phenomenal. Michelle Rodriguez

The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something

about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. Michael Badnarik I got married, other people went off. We had sort of another public-we were our entire readership for many years, and we were very excited by each other. Kenneth Koch Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality. George William Russell Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking. J. C. Watts Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Letitia Elizabeth Landon Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. Agnes de Mille I always wanted to go into acting...

Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking

in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do. Byron Dorgan God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man. Leo Strauss As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional. Richard Foreman The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle. Swami Sivananda I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again. Dean Stanley It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson No one can duplicate the confidence that RSA offers ...

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