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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a

janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' Walter Mosley I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it. William Green I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. Brad Holland Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. Richard Stallman When I was younger, I thought about retiring. Tanya Tucker

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all

should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own. Stan Kenton But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty. Amy Sedaris I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle. Barbara Kruger I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful. Sarah Brightman I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. Jean Rostand

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and

still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. Christopher Dawson Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? Tom Lehrer This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Princess Diana Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach

Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself

to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity. Tina Fey Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. Khalil Gibran I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. Quentin Crisp There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing. Josh Billings It's the business I'm in, I can't say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved. Cliff Richard

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say:

once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. Stanley Fish Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. Thomas Jefferson A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack. Frank Oz The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. Albert Camus One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love. Sophocles

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to

the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. James Loeb We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anais Nin Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get. Nelson Boswell As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be. James Green Somerville The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. Diane Sawyer

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to

society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. John Stuart Mill I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently. Ernst Zundel One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may. Joseph Smith, Jr. Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. Mahatma Gandhi

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake

in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances. Cesare Pavese I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world. Herbert Simon It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. Lynn Abbey It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. Frank B. Kellogg We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it. Mark Hoppus

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost

you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own. George Fox True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt Easy doesn't do it. Al Bernstein The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather. William Henry Ashley I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better. Ernst Lubitsch

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had

to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him. Tom Wilkinson I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Epicurus I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv. John Frusciante What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? Georg C. Lichtenberg I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already. Michelle Wie

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them,

and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know? Thomas Jane The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem. Dean Acheson I always said the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone. Tre Cool Faith in oneself is the best and safest course. Michelangelo Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Immanuel Kant

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone

hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins. Shel Silverstein You sleep with people all the time that you hate. Casey Affleck Get the best people and train them well. Scott McNealy I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half. Uri Geller The Negro, however, has been tested on an extensive scale. Ellsworth Huntington

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But

if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product. Peter Singer If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. Isaac Hayes But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. Patricia Clarkson You spend so much time in your profession it ought to be something you love. John H. Johnson By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. Hannah Arendt

Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half

months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on. Christopher Atkins The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. Kathleen Winsor My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team. Don Drysdale As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is. Howard Fineman When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says. George Crook

My favorite Knicks moment was when we beat Indiana in Game 7 to reach the

NBA Finals. We worked so hard as a team to reach that moment that it was very satisfying to beat Indiana and reach the Finals. John Starks So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. Yogi Berra Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. Claude Pepper All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible. Brenda Fassie

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for

me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking. Sean Combs And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. John Dryden The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. Herbert Marcuse I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member. Frank Darabont I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. Denis Leary

I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know

and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them. Dorothy Allison I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. Horace We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option. Lee H. Hamilton I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest. Don Nickles Effective action is always unjust. Maya Angelou

I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane

woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn. Germaine Greer We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe. Christopher Alexander The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do. Bruce Barton To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self. Samuel Johnson A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. Marguerite Yourcenar

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether

sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. Joseph Joubert Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper I started playing guitar kind of by accident. Ryan Cabrera No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist. Andre Breton

The thrill of hearing your own voice recorded is still there, I still love it,

going into the studio and thinking how can I sing this song and between the producers and the musicians you find a way of doing it. Cliff Richard Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. Joseph Campbell One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. Phoebe Cary We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom. Bill Owens My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me. Dennis Wilson

My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even

went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met. Robert B. Laughlin My works are an imitation of my own past and present. Barbara Hepworth Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country. Lord Byron Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. Vincent Van Gogh Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning. Amy Grant

I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility.

Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility. James E. Rogers You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache. Bernard Baruch Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. Thomas Campion The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. Francis Schaeffer I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself. Frederick Wiseman

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and

some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks. Michael Kinsley This nation can no longer tolerate the autonomous conduct of any single service. A waste of the resources of America in spendthrift defense is an invitation to disaster for America. Louis A. Johnson Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. John Milton Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times. Tim Finn He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts

he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! Pat Riley A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain. Rick Wagoner Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives. Mary Harris Jones What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign. Dennis Miller Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there. Donald Rumsfeld

To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different

from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road. Crystal Waters Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything. Art Spiegelman Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. Greil Marcus Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. Dag Hammarskjold

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way.

But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film. Peter Cushing I saw my wife at a pool, flipped over her, and 14 days later we were married. James Garner If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. Anne Spencer I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world. Al Green

The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's

boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind. Ellsworth Huntington Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. Joseph A. Schumpeter To imagine yourself inside another person... is what a storywriter does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose. Eudora Welty If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Oscar Wilde It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill

We also never undercut representatives' prices. A representative will always be able to

sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it's never more advantageous to buy there. Andrea Jung I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. Bill Withers No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; each season looked delightful as it past, to the fond husband and the faithful wife. James Beattie I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points. Joe E. Lewis I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests and some talent in many different areas. It confuses people. Dirk Benedict

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. Ann Coulter All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. Jackie Gleason I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male. Graeme Murphy But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel. Hans Kung

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know

that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened. Amy Grant The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. Alonzo Church Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. Malcolm de Chazal Oh that's very English, that's probably why. They just go 'LOL' in America. Kelly Osbourne What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emile M. Cioran

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody,

whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best. Rahm Emanuel Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect. Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get. Ralph Waldo Emerson An algorithm must be seen to be believed. Donald Knuth If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself. Bernard Meltzer

People should have the choice to be able to live where they want

to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth. Ed Smith Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing. Bruce Paltrow Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control. Daniel Johns I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music. Nick Cave All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. Blaise Pascal

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and

I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. Lindsay Wagner Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. Rosa Luxemburg I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. Iggy Pop Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine. Robert Moses It's always the minorities who aren't a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be. Rose Bird

Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which

looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat. Mike Davidson You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power. John Redwood There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from. Charles M. Schulz The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself. Bernard Baruch The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it. George W. Bush

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were

the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever. Ronnie James Dio To save all we must risk all. Friedrich Schiller Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses. Amy Tan Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. Claude M. Bristol Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. George Orwell

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or

future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publilius Syrus And, strangely, this one of the few things in life that the third, the latter, the buy with our eyes closed has actually done better than everybody else. Jim Cramer I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous. Jamie Oliver War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. George Orwell

They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the

Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. Tom Tancredo We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. Robert Louis Stevenson It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us. Thomas Aquinas One must not hope to be more than one can be. Nicolas Chamfort But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths. Michael Shermer

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company.

I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her. Jim Dale When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. Joseph Campbell As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald Trump Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it. Jeremy Taylor At this point I've got a bit of a track record. So people realize that when 'Weird Al' wants to go parody, it's not meant to make them look bad... it's meant to be a tribute. Al Yankovic

Most of the results of using technical bugging devices were of little importance

for my service. It may have been different in counter-intelligence, where bugs in flats, etc., were used to obtain a lot of information about what counter-intelligence was interested in. Markus Wolf Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. Thomas Carlyle I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him. Emo Philips Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are. Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. Sam Levenson

I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work

to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine. Karl Malone I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other. Billy Sherwood Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design - designing too early what a program should do. Paul Graham We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. Harry S Truman Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while

- to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way. Ben Webster Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California. Edsger Dijkstra I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe. Steven Curtis Chapman The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh. Carl Reiner You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule. Michael McKean

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth

and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. Henry A. Wallace My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation. Pam Grier Good enough never is. Debbi Fields Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. Fulton Oursler In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. Thomas Jefferson

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave

to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with Blue Collar America and I really liked it. I felt that lots of those people looked forward to me winning. Gerry Cooney At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups. Graham Nelson Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person. Ike Turner The writer's shortness of breath became more and more distressing as he rose. Hudson Stuck In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. Knut Hamsun

But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on

those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated. Roger Sessions I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records. Norman Cook I was a very wanting child. Loretta Young For too long, actually, we have either said you're this or that. Margaret Spellings I'm aware that people I have loved and have died and are in the spirit world looking after me. Princess Diana

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope,

founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. William E. Gladstone If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. Theodor Adorno Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. Malcolm Bradbury It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. John Henry Newman Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs. Ed Rendell

It's interesting to leave a place, interesting even to think about it. Leaving

reminds us of what we can part with and what we can't, then offers us something new to look forward to, to dream about. Richard Ford Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them. E. W. Howe I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied. Julia Margaret Cameron I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. Jon Stewart

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the

world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. James Thurber Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Thomas Carlyle Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out. Liev Schreiber The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself. Will Rogers

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics,

it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. Friedrich Nietzsche I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage. Maria Callas He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. William Samuel Johnson I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting. Mary Crosby I was on Days Of Our Lives for about three months. Steve Burton

The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep

with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it. Scott Caan Action is the real measure of intelligence. Napoleon Hill Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying. Bobby Jones The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself. Mark Messier Mary and I look eerily similar but other than that, the differences are pretty much night and day. Nikki Cox

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping

at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. T. S. Eliot Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. Abigail Adams Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. Emma Goldman The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks. Winslow Homer

I want to take some jams and really concentrate on hooking up with

Page because, since he's the only one not next to me, and his sound is mainly coming from my monitor rather than through the air, it's a little harder for me to hook up with him. Mike Gordon I was just glad to be going to work again. Rebecca De Mornay It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. Mary Astor In our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity. Anne Boyd I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me. Sienna Miller

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same

notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody. Albert Camus To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars. Sam Phillips Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. Bernard Law Montgomery He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes. Percy Ross

Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth

of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box. John Dykstra Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin In my opinion, fun is what makes advertising successful. Leo Bogart I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it. Ben Lindsey The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything. Carl Yastrzemski

Our country - whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or

however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurements more or less; - still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, and to be defended by all our hands. Robert Charles Winthrop How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? Vernor Vinge Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. Tacitus My mom is a sculptress. P. J. Harvey We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given

customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now. Steve Jobs For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas. Lee H. Hamilton Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. Ovid Live your life and forget your age. Jean Paul It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. John Henry Newman

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know

the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. John Chrysostom No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. Florence Scovel Shinn Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. Carroll Quigley Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. S. I. Hayakawa

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the

prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. Thomas Haden Church McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands. Fred Perry You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score. Darrell Royal Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour. Lance Henriksen When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. Marcel Achard

The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an

example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges. Wayne Allard It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different. Eddie Van Halen An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. Billy Wilder The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. Andy Rooney The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class. Ernest Mandel

When we see the shadow on our images, are we seeing the time

11 minutes ago on Mars? Or are we seeing the time on Mars as observed from Earth now? It's like time travel problems in science fiction. When is now; when was then? Bill Nye And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there. Eddie Campbell This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be. Julius Rosenberg I do not believe in excuses. I believe in hard work as the prime solvent of life's problems. James Cash Penney This hiatus coming up I'm looking at a comedy because I need the balance. Khandi Alexander

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this

doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power. John Nelson Darby With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor. Hugh Grant If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all. Tobey Maguire As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. Richard M. Nixon The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion. Tom Wolfe

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we

receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Charles Caleb Colton In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms. George Balanchine He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself. Thomas Szasz I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes. Carrie Underwood There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others. William Temple

We need a new Latin American policy that is bold - different. We

need to focus on building civil society, focus on the lack of infrastructure. We need look at ways to foster economic opportunity. There needs to be a more comprehensive economic vision in the region. Mel Martinez It's terrifying, that unconditional love you have for a child. I still wonder if she really came from me, from my womb. It's a miracle. I don't understand it. I live it very intensely. Anne Parillaud There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team. Jerry Rice Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Thomas Hardy To read too many books is harmful. Mao Zedong

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those

tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. Norman Lear Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed. Lynn Swann The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Walk on water? I know most people out there will be saying that instead of walking on it, I should have taken more of it with my drinks. They are absolutely right. Brian Clough

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody

I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special. Ted Allen The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. Milton Friedman We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. Condoleezza Rice I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation. Tre Cool I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem. Rebecca Romijn

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