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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to

share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. Don DeLillo As a matter of traditional and sound constitutional doctrine, an amendment to the Constitution should be the last resort when all other measures have proved inadequate. Arlen Specter People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education. David Soul According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it. Jay Leno Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction. Benny Hinn I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well. Gordon Smith If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph. Janet Malcolm I

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a

period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. Cliff Richard If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture. Barbara Kruger When we finished the tour we had been writing together for a year. We moved forward from there and have just now finished our record. We're having a new record out in the Spring. Kathy Valentine I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks. Sean Booth The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. Henry Adams Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. Peter Drucker E

Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his

background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot. Barbara Kruger I visited the Chinese side last year. The Chinese are in a constant state of military readiness. They have all their nuclear weapons in the area, presumably trained on targets across the border. Harrison Salisbury The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. Isaiah Berlin The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio. Beth Orton Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime. Frank Serpico I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal! Horatio Nelson Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, an

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I

love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are. Angelina Jolie They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time. Micky Dolenz I think most people... would be glad to pay the same taxes they paid when Bill Clinton was president, if only they could have the same economy they had when Bill Clinton was president. Howard Dean Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. Denis Waitley An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences. Theodor Adorno The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose fles

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless

war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest. Michael Scheuer Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise. Alberto Salazar Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. Bo Bennett I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive. John W. Gardner Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' Bill Bradley I love acting and making your own luck. You have to recreate yourself, I guess. Although, I don't know how. Dennis

If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you

It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right. Maxwell Anderson I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly. Elizabeth Dole When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. George Pierce Baker Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. Vaclav Havel If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. Moliere I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. Arthur Boyd

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take

themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more. Michael Bay In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only? Anne Hutchinson I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning. Gordon Moore I'm not ready to be a woman yet, I'd like it if my body were more boyish. Maybe I'll like my curves when I'm older but right now they kind of make me squirm. Vanessa Marcil Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. James Harvey Robinson It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears. Mo Rocca Better times perhaps await us who are now wretch

Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies

he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court. Patricia Ireland You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable. Tom Wilkinson No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. Ellen Glasgow In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption. Jerry Costello I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me. Jim Caviezel No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. Sheilah Graham The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then,

The noise resembles the roar of heavy, distant surf. Standing on the stirring ice one

can imagine it is disturbed by the breathing and tossing of a mighty giant below. Ernest Shackleton Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with 'Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.' Craig Kilborn That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. Barbara Ehrenreich There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it. Louis Pasteur Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' Mary Todd Lincoln The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cros

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard

is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last! John Dillinger But had they not paid that advance we would have lost much more, we would have started to go and look for the product all over again, the refinery would have stopped working. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.' Daniel J. Boorstin The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there. Carter G. Woodson I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band. Ruben Blades There are peop

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills

and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter. Susan Powter That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. Chester W. Nimitz Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. George Woodcock Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion. Ernie Fletcher The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. Mary Wollstonecraft If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal

that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. Alan Dershowitz I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. Corrine Brown People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. Lao Tzu I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard. Tracy Kidder When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business. Jerry Greenfield The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things

Virginia 's tax system needs to be fixed. The time to act is now. Do

not send me any more studies. Do not send me another piecemeal approach that confuses tinkering with real reform. Mark Warner The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W. Gardner I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows. Leon Redbone Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. King George V I think I'm going to be around awhile. Dan Marino Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born a

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would

be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored. John Poindexter A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. Herman Kahn Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. Colin Powell At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat. William Henry Moody There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. Warren Bennis Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are. Rip Torn The Cardinal is at his wit&#

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until

sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. William Osler In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context. John N. Mitchell I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan. Eddie Campbell The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other. Edmund Barton The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour. Hubert H. Humphrey John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. Ken Mehlman When I was younger, I

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time

give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index. Charles Vest I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading. Arundhati Roy Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us. David Hackworth There are people who kind of gravitate towards running politics based on new ideas and issues, and that was what the secret was for Clinton. John Podesta The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words

into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives. Paul Kane If operating in a network environment, do not place public domain or shareware programs in a common file-server directory that could be accessible to any other PC on the network. John McAfee You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it. Gael Garcia Bernal Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever. David Gest You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place. Leo Kottke The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh. Friedrich Schiller If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which

the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on the stage it is the first thing to aim at. Ellen Terry When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be. George Washington Carver I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now. Magic Johnson Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. Susanna Moodie It's kind of interesting to be a director who is all of a sudden being an actor playing an agent. This is my whole world! Mark Rydell I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that. Moira Kelly Never lie when the truth is more profitable. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Evolution is a tink

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the

world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing. Will Wright The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow. Robert W. Welch, Jr. But when I really look back on my life, being really honest about it and now that I've got the chance to travel the world, seeing how a lot of little kids grow up - my life wasn't so bad. Coolio There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. Berenice Abbott The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ. Norman Vincent Peale Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound Ever notice how irons have a setting

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a

person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable. Jeff Bingaman You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills. Albert Claude I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another. Bill Lee The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television. Sophia Loren I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. Keenen Ivory Wayans You hit somebody with your fist and not

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed

with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. Alex Grey In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. Lee R. Raymond The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in. Annie Lennox I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers. Rod Stewart It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. Esther Williams No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. George Bernard Sha

You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a

richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it. Donna Tartt They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be. Imran Khan I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two. Christine McVie I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer. Suzanne Farrell Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. Eknath Easwaran I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare. Lisa Marie Presley Libraries are not made, they g

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins

out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. Sarah Brady I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me. Alonzo Mourning Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. Sam Walton In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. Julianne Moore Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. Thomas Carlyle I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. Mahatma Gandhi Time flies. It's up to you

What I got out of it was a great experience working with great people and

it becoming a tremendous - basically - a family at the end that none of us wanted to leave. Shane West I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out. David Prowse I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me. Susie Bright So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker. Alma Guillermoprieto In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true. Ernest Hemingway I'm a lousy reader. Broderick Crawford Well, real estate is

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom

they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me. Barbara Kruger That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance. Muhammad Iqbal The United States has some people in Europe with whom we disagree on this matter and a large number of people in Europe, including governments in Europe, with whom we agree. Douglas Feith If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want. Eliot Ness If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known

to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. Friedrich August von Hayek We have a substantial number of countries that have pledged and provided all kinds of support for the United States in the event that war becomes necessary in Iraq. Douglas Feith The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in. Howard Dean There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. Martha Graham The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. Saxby Chambliss We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us.

I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done

with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait. Margaret Haddix As a 29-year-old, the only thing that I can possibly think is that if I'm still performing at 50, it's because I'll have had disastrous marriages and I have to pay for them. Robbie Williams The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility. John Lennon I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future. Michael Phelps To me, the 90's signaled the end of glam rock, the beginning of gangsta rap, and hopefully the beginning and end of boy bands. Shane West Books do furnish a room. Anthony Powell To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde As a youngs

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a

great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment. Claudia Black If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? Graham Greene Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. Peter Coyote People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them. Jackie Cooper I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds. Dave Chappelle We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Dean Stanley If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: &

I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get

suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick. John Hurt Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans. Yukihiro Matsumoto But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world. Elizabeth Moon I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that. John Keats Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win. Patricia Ireland Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system a

People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked

very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol. John Mahoney You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies. Courtney Thorne-Smith The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. David Duchovny I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do. Jim Cramer We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil. Claus von Stauffenberg We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved. Ron Reagan Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It

My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing

to work hard, and remember that you don't know as much as you think you do, ever. James Marsters Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. Herman Kahn Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. Ezra Stiles I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. Richard Price I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard. Kathy Griffin It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations. Sanjay Kumar One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer

Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority

of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies. Tran Duc Luong My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy. Pamela Anderson It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. Arthur Herzog Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. William E. Simon Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. Sue Kelly In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics. William Standish Knowles He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. Saint Augustine The people

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told

anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. Tim Cahill Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Jim Rohn To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles. Mike Pence All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. William Shakespeare Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. Bob Riley A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. Havelock Ellis For target shooting, that's okay. Get a licen

It's part of our nature. As much as I love (brother and guitarist Eddie), if

you put us in a room with no one else for 15 minutes, we'd be at each other's throats. Alex Van Halen Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Nicholas Meyer American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957. Tom Holt But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response? Robert Kennedy Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. Francis Bacon The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. Robert A. Heinlein Men should stop treating feminists like lad

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the

most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. Doris Lessing The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. Malcolm X My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career. Andrea Jung I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall. William Petersen I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. Pietro Aretino I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died. Lizzie Andrew Bord

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair,

we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success. Bo Bennett In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown. Mary Grandpre Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Ludwig Wittgenstein I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like. Barbara Kruger I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side. Lenny Kravit

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent,

generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Edmund Burke Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. James Darren The important aspect as we look at this budget, and as we look at previous budgets, is the budget system - what I'm trying to get at is changing budgeting itself in Wisconsin. Scott McCallum The opportunities that Gorbachev created for international relations have also been missed, perhaps even lost - here, however, primarily because of the United States. Stephen Cohen I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. Marie Louise Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward. Maxwell Maltz He who is not just is sever

We have to have a way of dealing with this that engenders confidence, trust, gives

us every chance of getting the right outcome and boosts both sustainability and economic return at the same time. John Anderson I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me. Emmy Rossum I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. Chester Brown I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here. Bob Riley A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. Walter Bagehot The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. Bill Cosby Firefighters are

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health

no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Henry St. John I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. Tina Turner So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives. Charlie Kaufman That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone. Bruce Davison There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. James Nathan Miller Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch. Andy Goldsworthy I do

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the

computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. Mark Kennedy Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. Jane Grey The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican. Robert Teeter As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened. Jerry Costello If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Abraham Lincoln Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. Muddy Waters Everything is clearer when you're in love. John Lenno

What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go

nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it! Jonathan Davis Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2,000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1,000, and sell a thousand of them. Jerry Gillies Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. Bertrand Russell I know at my church a lot of the times we sung from hymn books and as we got older we started to change with time. I can honestly say that I was never influenced to write for the church. Charles King What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. Chuck Grassley The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. Cyril Connolly Reason

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a

feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience. Debbi Fields Red is one of the strongest colors, it's blood, it has a power with the eye. That's why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well... In fact I use red in all of my paintings. Keith Haring We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people we work with. Graeme Murphy The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries. Samuel P. Huntington If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Thomas Jefferson The family farm is the foundation for who we are as a Commonwealth. And for over a century, the family fa

If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be

when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. Janet Napolitano A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time. Alexis Bledel Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. Catherine Drinker Bowen You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you are more beautiful as an orphan than as your mother's son. Witold Gombrowicz The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do. Johnny Isakson I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed. Drew Barrymore Reputation is

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and

the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now. Trent Reznor People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow. Erma Bombeck The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head! Ben Kingsley The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens. Dennis Miller So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why. John Fahey If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way

to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. Tina Fey I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started. Ferguson Jenkins We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve. Jack Reed If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong. Arlen Specter We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Anaxagoras In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then al

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game

to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace. Rick Wagoner Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world. Yo-Yo Ma Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. Frank B. Kellogg Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took. Stephen Harper The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. Anna Julia Cooper Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Saul Bellow You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing ab

Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard

to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone. August Wilson There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers. Christopher Shays The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting. Martin Van Creveld We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly. Jean de la Bruyere One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. George Orwell A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. Oscar Wilde People

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883,

they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. Carroll Quigley Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise. Robert Baden-Powell We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. Christina Hoff Sommers We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. Irving Babbitt I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid. Tom Jones This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's m

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it

away from there. Here it finds its only resting place. Richard Parks Bland I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen. Henry Miller I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. Nicolas Cage There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. Saul Bellow Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I wan

I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be

exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully. Latrell Sprewell Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. Robert Collier I think it's great now that we seem to be in an era where it's OK to be gay and I think that the society in North America has had more of a problem with it than any other society. Jason Priestley There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people. Huey Newton Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. Mikhail Bakunin To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that

logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. Jean Piaget I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing. Torrie Wilson In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature; but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty. John Strachan One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there. Tim LaHaye I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl. Anne Hathaway Next? Growing up to be Clint Eastwood, I hope. Steven Bauer You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there. Harry Browne Seeing someone else perform and letting m

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with

Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food. Danny Bonaduce I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work. Leah Remini I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women. Stevie Smith Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. Muhammad Iqbal But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents. Joseph Heller Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as

Without the funding Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely

on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming. Corrine Brown We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run. Al Stewart We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world. Bill Shuster He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. J. D. Salinger I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything. James Boswell I dive as much as I can. Peter Benchley You will only be remembered for two things: the problems you solve or the ones you create. Mike Murdock Our words

Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax

credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before. Jane D. Hull In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth. Campbell Scott I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation. Avril Lavigne I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. Evan Hunter A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. John McCarthy Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion. Horace Greeley Beca

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only

as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree. Karl Barth They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons. Douglas Feith I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all of when I'm depressed and throw it into when I'm feeling good. Weird, I guess. Del Shannon They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.' Charlotte Rae It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. Arthur Eddington No one welcomes chaos, but why crave stability and predictability? Hugh Mackay The Clean Michig

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to

a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states. Rickie Lee Jones The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house. Jeff Bridges We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. Henry Miller Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. Daniel Barenboim I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. Guillaume Apollinaire Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. Douglas William

But I will say this: In my humble opinion, knowing nothing about it, I do

believe that they have remote viewers working on where Osama Bin Laden is. I absolutely, 100%, convinced of that. Aaron Eckhart I don't want women and their families to be left out and left behind. We can fight for them. We will fight for them. They deserve better and I want to give them better. Barbara Mikulski I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. Ian Williams We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go. The same principle will have to apply here or we won't get there. John Anderson By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions. Norman Ralph Augustine Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. Christia

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set

I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue. Cecil Beaton It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself. Andrew Shue What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. William Blake After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river. William Henry Ashley The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence. Michel de Montaigne The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. Peter Straub I

In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff

because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take. Dakota Fanning There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him. Charles Horton Cooley Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. Jack Kevorkian The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. Colin Greenwood Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. Eudora Welty A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. Geo

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain

way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. Edward de Bono I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me. Joel Madden Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. Samuel Butler Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s. Peter Lewis Allen There is virtually nothing I wouldn't be willing to do, to try and make sure that children have a fair shake in life. Daniel Keys Moran The love received is the love that is saved. Eddie Vedder You've got to experiment to figure out what works. Andrew Weil Art begins with resi

Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1

most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model. Jimmy Fallon When we were first started we were doing a lot of Motown stuff, but actually playing it more in a rock way. Everybody in the band sang and we did a lot of harmonies. Roy Wood How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. Neville Chamberlain Gore will not win a popularity contest, he will not win a personality contest, but he can win an idealogical battle, and he can win a battle of experience. Susan Estrich The beautiful thing about when you go through a slide is that you learn from it. Not just saying that you learn from it, but applying the things that you have learned. Kevin Garnett When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. Gracie Allen As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against los

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether

they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know? Lili Taylor Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks. Frank Lampard The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. Jim Rohn We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. Albert Barnes The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. Henry A. Wallace In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem. Norm Dicks A good teacher, like a good entertaine

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go

through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. Mary Wesley We sincerely hope that south Asian countries will respect and live in amity with each other, and achieve common development, and that south Asia will enjoy peace, stability and prosperity. Li Peng The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. Jack Henry Abbott The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy. Natan Sharansky I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question. Robert Wyatt Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. Jean Piaget We were criticized t

I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that

I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty. Dan Hicks In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war. Pierre Laval Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women. Andrea Jung I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes. Marc Jacobs Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. Simon Travaglia Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first

are all blindly adopted, the second willfully preferred. George Bancroft The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. Robert South As our federal government has grown too large and too powerful, the real loss has been the freedom of people to govern their own lives and participate fully in the American dream. Steve Forbes Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. Isak Dinesen Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations. Yasser Arafat I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment. Utada Hikaru What I'd really like to give a try is cricket, becau

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and

can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people. Roy Harper I am reasonably happy. I didn't find Jesus or anything like that. Part of it is that I just feel that I could go home. I did not feel like that for a long time, but I could go back now. Craig Ferguson From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. Isaac Asimov We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work. Saint Francis de Sales It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. Alice Paul It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. George Edmund Street The recent past al

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed

my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. Marie Antoinette Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves. Liberty Hyde Bailey We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research. Mike Pence We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. Thomas Goodwin One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. Charles Brenton Huggins A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. Robert E. Lee I'm try

An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy

collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen. Irving Babbitt They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more. Lauren Bacall At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. Jean Baudrillard If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. William J. Clinton Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. Emily Carr For the first half of your life, people tell you what you should do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done. Richard J. Needham Wh

Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that

scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing. Guy Pearce I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. Hermann Goering Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. Edsger Dijkstra Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. Jim Rohn People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great. Audrey Tautou Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God

did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing. Joyce Cary Well, I couldn't do the day-to-day stuff of being a politician or anything, but I just think everybody should have an opinion and everybody should vote, and that's what we're built on. Toby Keith I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out. Josh Holloway Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it. Pierce Brosnan 'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves. Robert B. Parker I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner. Lisa Leslie It's an ear job, not an eye job. Donald T. Regan

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was

making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure. Brian Welch I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. John F. Kennedy But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. Diane Johnson I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun. Burt Young Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. Eric Hoffer Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. Karl Kraus The

Well, I'm not saying that we're solving every problem or arresting every person that ought

to be arrested and deported, but we're doing a better job than has been done in the past. Thad Cochran But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock. Don Nickles From cutting back on state contracts to reducing the number of state cars, We're making state government smaller, smarter, more efficient, and more accountable. Jim Doyle What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Richard Stallman A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough. Larry McMurtry I love filmmaking, and I love 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

In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have

narrowed considerably. Nayef Al-Rodhan I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that I'm making excuses. I was always out and about and had a good time as a kid, so I've done alright. Danny Dyer I think I just stick to eating a well-rounded diet. I don't cut out anything; if I crave something, I eat it. But I definitely try to stick to a balanced diet always. Martha Hunt If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS. Rand Paul Me and heels are very good friends. Emilia Clarke The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it. Joyce Meyer Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. Dennis Quaid I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puf

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

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on

with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain. Charlie Sheen I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit. Jerry Saltz I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues. Len G. Murray I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.' Feist Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their ti

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