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Germany has always stood for an E.U. of the 27 countries. But

in light of Britain's continued resistance to further integration steps, as we saw with the fiscal pact, there are limits to my optimism in this regard. It's quite possible that we will have to create the new institutions for the euro zone first. Wolfgang Schauble What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. George Eliot Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. Mark Twain The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. Marissa Mayer Everything in life is gray, you know. Jeannette Walls It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. John Dryden Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. Gilbert K. Chesterton I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines. Fran Drescher A...

When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish

lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.'s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market. Ali Babacan And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that. William Kirby If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun. Carol Channing The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other. Neil Sheehan The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. Roy L. Smith Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. Gustave Courbet My very first magazine...

Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to

do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what's best for them, and what's best for me may not be best for someone else. Lea Michele This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. Peace Pilgrim The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired. Gustave Courbet I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old. Louise Woodward We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. Dave Barry Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. Louis Kahn It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury. Thomas Moore Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one. Baltasar Gracian It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.' Ralph Waldo Emer...

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't

need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it. Drew Barrymore This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful. Walter Lang Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. Brad Holland Just dying should not be a reason for taxes. Todd Akin The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great. Meister Eckhart Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. Tanya Tucker An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. Steven Spielberg I...

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country -

don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment. Rick Perry A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening. Bruce Davison Think before you act and act on what you believe. Bo Bennett After we have calmly stood by and allowed monopolies to grow fat, we should not be asked to make them bloated. John Griffin Carlisle To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. Jane Austen Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. Jose Marti I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around...

My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered

the Beatles when she was about 11 and I'm four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band. Christina Ricci Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose. J. Martin Kohe There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Character is simply habit long continued. Plutarch Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall! Jonathan Taylor Thomas The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. Arthur Koestler Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough. David Packard What's coming will come...

I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just

pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery. Ted Allen You are doing better than you think you are. Alan Cohen The remedy is worse than the disease. Francis Bacon I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is. Mark McGwire Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. Rose Wilder Lane The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. Leonardo da Vinci I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear. Daniel Bell A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. Richard M. Nixon Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rath...

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the

same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that. Michelle Forbes I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician. Frankie Avalon Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant What we share with another ceases to be our own. Edgar Quinet Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Friedrich Nietzsche I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up. Larry Flynt When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them. Herbert V. Prochnow What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller I think of myself as a highly sexual cre...

One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to

be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other. Diablo Cody Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly. Dan Rather Things forbidden have a secret charm. Tacitus It was being young and sensitive and an actor. There was a lot of pressure, everything was a hurdle. Matt Dillon I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much. Ken Hensley I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it. Fiona Shaw This autocue was obviously written for someone else and I've been brought in at the last minute. Johnny Vegas I didn't know how many people knew who Ferdinand was. Elliott Smith When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and ...

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born

the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '£10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia. Hugh Jackman Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution. Alexander Downer Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens. Peter McWilliams I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book. Jeffery Deaver The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.' Alvin Dark I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how. Casper Van Dien I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment. Linda Tripp It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on. Jena Malone The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. Cyril Connolly

Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and

it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film. Jeremy Sisto The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. Joan Chen With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. Bill Wyman To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. Jean Tinguely How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. Claude Debussy I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white. Artur Davis Character matters; leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure. Simone Weil I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. Ayumi Hamasaki

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there

on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned. Robert Pattinson People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime? Linda Tripp I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. Victoria Beckham You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. Friedrich Nietzsche We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly. Voltaire I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized. Bobby Sherman I think people are tired of politicians trying to poke each other in the eye. Mark Warner If the shoe fi...

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief

that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. Barack Obama The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. James H. Boren They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. Ruth Handler How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? Dwight D. Eisenhower A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. Malcolm de Chazal When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. A. C. Benson A fever is an expression of inner rage. Julia Roberts The body is a house of many wind...

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous

number of phenomena, some of them very obvious and some of them less obvious. But I think that in the end there are going to be some very basic explanations for many things: emotions, awareness, consciousness, attention, perception, recognition. Henry Markram There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. Judith Anderson Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. Oprah Winfrey If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works. Jane Byrne He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. Samuel Johnson A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. O. Henry The longer the title, the less important the job. George McGovern People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from...

I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you

learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it. Sergio Perez When you make a bet, you're saying something. Al Alvarez When it comes to the income of the ministry, I have no problem talking about it or what happens to the money. Benny Hinn We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. Edward Gibbon If something's important to you, you make time for it. Mia Maestro A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. William S. Burroughs Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appe...

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually

understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open. Theresa May Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. Douglas Horton Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality. Ovid Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. Julie Burchill Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Wendell Phillips To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time. Katharine Hepburn Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. Jim Ryun Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. Pierre Trudeau I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there w...

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea

of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages. Walter Dean Myers Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Immanuel Kant What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows. Martin Short Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives. Cole Younger My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. Robert Vaughn It gets late early out there. Yogi Berra While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. Giovanni Boccaccio Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw To have...

When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and

'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny. Miles Teller We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. Mitchell Baker I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. Jeffery Deaver The high note is not the only thing. Placido Domingo Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. Henry David Thoreau Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious. Alan Moore Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand. Townsend Harris The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams r...

I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that

we have, the school that Will and I have, is not a Scientology school. And that, you know, I know there's been, you know, a lot of buzz around that idea and that it is not my desire to, you know, teach Scientology at all. Jada Pinkett Smith Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. Heraclitus When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings. Sydney J. Harris The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. Charles Caleb Colton Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience. Wynonna Judd Years later I made a movie with Wayne Newton, who has Arabians. Eric Roberts To hit bottom is to fall from grace. Douglas...

Da Pak was a group out of Chicago. It was a put-together group. We actually

met for the first time at this showcase. They were like 'Yo, you should do a song together.' So we did. It just so happened that the name of the song was 'Wolf Pak.' They said, 'Y'all should be a group called Da Pak, and here's a record deal.' Lupe Fiasco The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. Carlo Goldoni I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. Mary Cassatt Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. Bill Joy Happy is he who has gained the wealth of divine thoughts, wretched is he whose beliefs about the gods are dark. Empedocles To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.' Ayn Rand The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. Malcolm Bradbury They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think. John Backus I recen...

For me, healthy eating and exercising is something I work on constantly. I'm not the

most disciplined dieter. I try to eat a lot of fruit and vegetables but sometimes late at night I tend to have fast-food meals - and that's where I get myself into trouble! So I'm not in the best shape I could be, but I'm still healthy and comfy. Fergie Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles? Louis Farrakhan He enters the port with a full sail. Virgil Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. Grace Abbott A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. Horace I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day. Utada Hikaru Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names. Piper Laurie If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more. John Templeton The key to growth is the introduction of hig...

If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're

too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us. Stuart Rose Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness. Martin Luther King, Jr. The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. Samuel Smiles I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them. Charles Lindbergh I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair. Howell Raines You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don't have that. Mark Hamill Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Washington Irving Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people. Frederick Lewis Allen ...

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that

is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. Steve Albini A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. Lord Acton I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality. John Randolph In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. Alan Perlis Your successful past will block your visions of the future. Joel A. Barker The real fact is that I could no longer stand their eternal cold mutton. Cecil Rhodes He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. James Lane Allen I've always liked men better than women. Bette Davis Your government is no longer mine. Scott Nearing

If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held

up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact. Anderson Cooper It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism. Guillermo del Toro The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. Jack Benny Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. Tom Tancredo Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. Alessandro Del Piero In married life three is company and two none. Oscar Wilde Music inflames temperament. Jim Morrison Spaghet...

To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost

by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution. Burt Rutan I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school. Joe Tex Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother, just younger. Anders Zorn A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Douglas MacArthur Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone. Mahatma Gandhi The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. Otto von Bismarck Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies. Bill Toomey Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. Prince Philip I remember being told 'Someone's gonn...

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a

real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime. Carly Pope Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Robert Fulghum To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Plutarch Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know. John Deacon I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties. Hugh Mackay Because when we're in space, my job is primarily getting us there and getting us back. Duane G. Carey The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the priva...

I learned first of all not to be intimidated by any visual effects that I

don't understand. It can all be learned. You can then use them as tools to tell your story. I also learned that you have to be really vigilant, the more complex the movie, to not lose yourself and to not lose sight of the priority. Shawn Levy I used to care more about the score than I do now. Darrell Royal This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president. Howard Dean The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Jim Rohn I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say. Teresa Heinz Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! Stevie Wonder There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them. Anthony Edwards The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. Michel de Montaigne

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They

think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. Bernadine Dohrn The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away. Fulton J. Sheen Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. Kin Hubbard We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. Mikhail Gorbachev Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music. Maynard Ferguson The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. Martin Luther The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. Edna St. Vincent Millay If they didn't have ten fights a night, it was a bad night. John Hunter Every man prefers belief to the exerc...

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you

watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me. Chick Hearn A man is literally what he thinks. James Allen Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? Robert Browning All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat. Walter de La Mare No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. Robert Adams There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. Benjamin Franklin I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team. Art Buchwald Don't give me any money, don't give me any people, but give freedom, and I'll give...

When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were

sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it. Sam Farr One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach. Knute Rockne When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall. Kenneth Lay The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. Ida Tarbell You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. William J. H. Boetcker You know, just because you're a blonde type doesn't mean you can't suddenly do serious parts. Cleo Moore Take your work seriously and yourself lightly. Bob Nelson Slander is worse than cannibalism. John Chrysostom There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy...

People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing,

but maybe you should use this actor. And there are the threats, at the end - if you don't do it this way, you'll lose your box office; if you don't do it that way, you'll never get financed again... 35, 40 years of this, you get beat up. Martin Scorsese Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. Strom Thurmond Death is the cure for all diseases. Thomas Browne It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols. Meg Ryan Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television. Rita Mae Brown Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. David Letterman The pro...

Almost every morning I write in my journal. I've been keeping it for a long

time - I've filled more than 50 books. I write about what's going on in my personal and spiritual life or what's going on at work. It helps me keep things in perspective, especially when things get crazy or I get stressed or we have obstacles. Blake Mycoskie Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. James Stephens It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. Jean de la Bruyere My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me. Franz Kafka If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England. Paul Harris Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. David Seabury Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long. Oliver Goldsmith The less routine the more li...

People hate me for whatever reasons they come up with, or they hate me because

their friends said they should. What can I do about it? What can I do about people who look at things the wrong way? At the end of the day it's like, 'You're wrong, I'm just a skateboarder. How can I help you?' Ryan Sheckler Time management is a big part of the director's job. Debbie Allen Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. Johann Kaspar Lavater American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. James A. Baldwin I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are. Lee Scott The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Samuel Johnson I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste. Kelly Lynch Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of go...

A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because

I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.' Joseph Gordon-Levitt The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it. Adolf Hitler Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. Bill Mauldin I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. Bruce Schneier It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. Andre Gide God bears with the wicked, but not forever. Miguel de Cervantes I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life. Damien Hirst Our conscience is not the ve...

We've got to be fair. You can't say a place that has strip joints is

sacred ground. We've got to be just. We've got to speak the truth. We've got to have justice for everybody. We're a country of justice for all, not justice for non-Muslims only or some groups and not for others. Feisal Abdul Rauf I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun. Moira Kelly I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. Chuck Close Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. Gore Vidal I will come again, and I will be millions. Evita Peron I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface. Marcia Cross What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what Go...

Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious

and complex of realities to simple - even simplistic - terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological. Jon Meacham I'm really not that special. Really, I'm not. I was on a big TV show, but it was just a TV show. Clay Aiken We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality. Moira Kelly I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial. Bert Williams I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power. David Price Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life. Carlos Santana Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. Bernard Malamud Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the...

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have

children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.' Kelly Clarkson It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised. Bill Paxton I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft. Christopher Cross Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. W. Somerset Maugham No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. Horace The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share. Roy L. Smith To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. Francis Marion Crawford Enjoy your time in public service. It ma...

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can

acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. Thich Nhat Hanh I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy. Richard Marx I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily. Marguerite Yourcenar We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them. George W. Bush It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. William James I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long. Joan Severance There was only so much television you could do. Jackie Cooper I saw George Bush at a benefit concert actually waving at Stevie Wonder. Someone had to tell him...

You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping

his identity secret and even the names, Kal-El and Jor-El, you can trace lines to the background of the creators, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, both Jewish. Overall, there was a remarkable confluence of events that led to the medium and the Jewish participation. Jerry Robinson For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are. Leslie Charteris He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. Daniel Webster We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. John Sweeney I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators. Margaret Spellings It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. George Burns In short I will part with anything for you but yo...

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm

playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more. Jessica Brown Findlay An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast. Carol Kane Theatre sports is the best improv training period. Wayne Brady I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer. Marguerite Young Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. Bertrand Russell I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time. Debra Messing One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott How did Abraham know that it was God th...

Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when

I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am. Carla Gugino To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. Theodore Roosevelt If I'm free, it's because I'm always running. Jimi Hendrix There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must. Tony Blair Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. Ronald Reagan Some folk want their luck buttered. Thomas Hardy Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with m...

I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it -

and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And I try to leave room for that unpredictable factor, where the feeling of the song is allowed to come through. The same ethos can be applied to singing Mozart, or Schubert, or Bach. It's not just about what's on the page. Kathleen Battle Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. Arthur Schopenhauer Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. Anna Jameson When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment. Arlen Specter 'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one. Rick Allen Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners. Patti LaBelle Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reactin...

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to

dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. Jean Paul Gaultier I wholeheartedly support umbilical stem cell research, but also support embryonic stem cell research. Eliot Engel I might as well have pulled the trigger myself. Joan Bennett Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me. Jerry Bruckheimer Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. Samuel Butler War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. James Russell Lowell For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. Henri Frederic Amiel You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea t...

Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the

Declaration of Independence - let alone the Emancipation Proclamation. But they know that to be 'a Benedict Arnold' is to be a traitor of the deepest dye - someone who coldly betrays not only a sacred cause but every moral scruple along the way. Arthur L. Herman The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Steven Biko The future is as bright as the promises of God. William Carey Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. William C. Bryant Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred. Swami Sivananda The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes. Charley Reese Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner. Ludwig von Mises As a first-time dir...

There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision

with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end. Neil deGrasse Tyson I'm proud, I've been working with this kind of self-sacrificing people like you. Islom Karimov It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Jean Rostand I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult. Adam Ant The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. Pearl S. Buck Everybody is a teenage idol. Barry Gibb Necessity has no law. Oliver Cromwell The desire for security must be balanced with our regard for liberty. Samuel Schmid Evolution is baseless and quite incredible. John Ambrose Fleming

It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily become

questions of integrity. I came to Washington in the late '70s, and people had the ability in the past to have intense policy differences but didn't feel the need to question the other person's character. Eric Holder I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am. Jim Sullivan I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. Richard Linklater In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways. Dylan Moran The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it. Frank A. Clark Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them. Steve Martin There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. J. Carter Brown Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. E. B. White It was great being together as a band...

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives

in a profound way. When we look around at the thousands of people who have attended Summit gatherings, it makes us smile to see the new friendships, business partnerships and philanthropic initiatives that each event produces. Elliott Bisnow I don't particularly care how many records we sell any more because we've kind of bought all the equipment we want to buy. Sean Booth But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program. Red Grooms We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label. Isaac Hanson Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it? Anthony Hope If I did not believe God healed, I'd quit tomorrow and go get a job. Benny Hinn The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. Julian Lincoln Simon Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankin...

But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work

and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years. Dax Shepard Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot. David Lee Roth Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched. Paul Harris You can be right or you can be happy. Gerald Jampolsky Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? Ernest Gaines We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation. George Allen I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller. Kristen Johnston

I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a

government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied. David Cameron We had a dialogue coach. She helped us with our T's. Rupert Grint Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. Sydney Smith I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions. Byron Dorgan Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git. Alexei Sayle She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. Michael Arlen Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. Mitchell Kapor People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who i...

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of

that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music? Ozzy Osbourne If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions. Graham Nash And what most people don't understand is the bulk of business in this country is small business. Alphonso Jackson In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action. George Pierce Baker Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works. Bobby Sherman When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? Russell Hoban We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. Christopher Dodd A wise man...

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit.

All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. Haruki Murakami More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. George Eliot Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field. Alonzo Church Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. Josh Billings It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all. Brian Austin Green I'd love to break America, like all artists do. It's a lot of work but, you know, it's got to be done! Rachel Stevens Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex. Myrna Loy But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million ...

I feel that each and every one of us as individuals has a responsibility to

one another. None of us would be here without the help of someone else - whether it be guardians, teachers, parents, relatives, etc. - someone contributed to your well being as a person. We're all connected in so many different ways. Alonzo Mourning Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. Anne Hutchinson Ambition never comes to an end. Kenneth Kaunda Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair. Ovid But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner. John Donne The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are getting $20 million to be in it. Dirk Benedict Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy. Dwight L. Moody I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it. Wellington Mara

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but

today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary. Ted Strickland The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable. Gabrielle Roy I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy. Ted Allen I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. Joely Fisher Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. John Updike Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe. Sumner Redstone We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. Margaret Mead We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great we...

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have

been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal. Robert Lanza And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics. Utada Hikaru I was never named in the early years as having anything to do with the assassination of Malcolm. Louis Farrakhan I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid. Sonny Rollins Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit. Jerry Costello Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. Mahatma Gandhi I do have the 'girl next door' image. Cindy Margolis Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rath...

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't

think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. George W. Bush Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time. Sean William Scott Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. Susan Sontag Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains. Marilyn French I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way. Robert Johnson I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that. Brion James When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents. Russell Crowe Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either peopl...

I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on

'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!' Charlotte Arnold I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. Bill Wyman I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor. Jon Stewart Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all. Natalie Portman As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Lea DeLaria I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say. Latrell Sprewell Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. John Wayne The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' Friedrich Nietzsche A bachelor is a man who never makes the...

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I

feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him? Greg Kinnear He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world. George Herbert The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. Arthur C. Clarke From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour. Julia Margaret Cameron I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable. David Schwimmer If the money's right, I'm happy to bust up the other side of his face... No problem. Lennox Lewis A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. Abraham Lincoln I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism. Roberto Rossellini ...

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring

all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene. Paul Feig If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. Ronnie Lott I usually don't read things written about me and I certainly don't read things if they are inappropriate. Helen Hunt Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. William Tecumseh Sherman An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. Bruno Rossi I think that things happen for a reason. Dave Davies The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars. David Prowse Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. Norman Cousins The human mind always makes progre...

When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting

cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character. J. Michael Straczynski There are never enough I Love You's. Lenny Bruce There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt I basically was a precocious little kid. Michael Ironside The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. Sholom Aleichem Man lives by imagination. Havelock Ellis Everybody's over here to make money for themselves. Betty Hill Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. Andrew Jackson Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus

People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That

one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated. Veronica Roth When I'm in bed with a woman, my favorite move is a wrestling hold called the lip lock. Jerry Lawler You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things. Lita Ford I enjoy talking to my football men and my chemistry classes and I feel sure that they are quite interested in what I have to say. Knute Rockne Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun. Nancy Cartwright Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. Anne Morrow Lindbergh The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. Logan Pearsall Smith A win by an unsound combination, however s...

I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind

of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him. Ellen DeGeneres Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. Mikhail Bakunin Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. Joseph Cannon Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down. Lynn Abbey A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. Richard Branson Ridley and I talk ...

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow

them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else. Mitt Romney Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. Rene Magritte I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. Billie Jean King I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites. James Stewart Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. Tom Landry People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people. Rachel Griffiths To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery. Richard Hooker The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness. Lee Iacocca Whenever the names of the disciples are enumerated in the New Testamen...

In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited

a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom. Mandy Moore Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. Charles M. Schwab However, I don't by any means suggest that I'm always playing myself. Frank Langella In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely. Geoffrey Fisher Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was. Stevie Nicks There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. Napoleon Bonaparte The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia. Elbert Hubbard The old studios that mass-prod...

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty

with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?' Gabriel Mann When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. Ronald Knox Every exit is an entry somewhere else. Tom Stoppard Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning. Jeane Dixon Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone. Tatjana Patitz Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Edward R. Murrow Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. Jose Marti He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. David Hu...

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it

sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance. Emma Donoghue It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. Michel de Montaigne Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects. David Crane The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. Ed Markey The ego is not master in its own house. Sigmund Freud You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. Gifford Pinchot Chance is a name for our ignorance. Leslie Stephen Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. W. Somerset Maugham

And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up

on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you. Michael Phelps Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders. Rodney Alexander We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were. Louis Auchincloss Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns. David Ogilvy You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Time destroy...

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store,

I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.' Victoria Legrand Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. Stendhal The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day. Gabe Paul I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. Naveen Andrews One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. Edward Abbey Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. John Dryden Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in...

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our

species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous. Lynn Margulis If a chairman sacks the manager he initially appointed, he should go as well. Brian Clough May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. Franz Kafka Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. Conrad Aiken You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. Jonathan Coe Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. Robert Burton Success breeds success. Mia Hamm Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. Carrie Snow We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it mor...

What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the

Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true. Mia Love The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here. Alex Van Halen People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us. Jenna Bush I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum. Robert De Niro Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. David Hartman Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks. Mark Twain I grew up watching Monday ...

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