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Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on

it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.' Buddy Guy It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new. Robert W. Service I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost. J. Reuben Clark I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well. Jennifer Aniston

Well, your premise is correct, that we have to first guard against those who have

an affiliation with terrorists and a connection, and so we have watch lists and systems that can make that connection. Asa Hutchinson I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go. David Selby Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. Josh Billings Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. Viktor E. Frankl I can honestly say this industry hasn't made me neurotic about my looks, except maybe my weight. I hope my clothes kind of reflect that. They're meant to make you feel good. Stella McCartney

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born,

little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. Norman Mailer Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine Information can bring you choices and choices bring power - educate yourself about your options and choices. Never remain in the dark of ignorance. Joy Page A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. Grantland Rice You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. Nikki Cox

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best

thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete. Keith Sweat Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. Benjamin Rush I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration. Neil Diamond Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. John Cheever Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. Georges Bataille

It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the

miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages. Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. Samuel Smiles I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single. Penelope Cruz In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe. Eric S. Raymond All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our father. Black Kettle Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. John Wilmot

There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because

they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger. Keith Haring Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to. Lesley Garrett Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. Thomas Fuller When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas A. Edison Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. Grover Cleveland

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the

street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. Pope John Paul II When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. Sarah Orne Jewett That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together. Duane G. Carey The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Henry Kissinger People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable. Harold H. Greene

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very';

otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. C. S. Lewis Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket. Henry Chadwick The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. Jack Levine To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how

it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. Andie MacDowell The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. Adlai E. Stevenson Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction. Guy Verhofstadt I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films. Campbell Scott Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are. Victoria Pratt

Ever since I came to Congress in 1992, there are those who have been trying

to silence my voice. I've been told to 'sit down and shut up' over and over again. Well, I won't sit down and I won't shut up until the full and unvarnished truth is placed before the American people. Cynthia McKinney I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. Marguerite Young It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race. Emily Murphy Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding. Kenneth Tynan War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. Alexander Berkman

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness.

But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. Ashley Montagu 'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again. Isaac Watts I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. Bo Diddley Women are made to be loved, not understood. Oscar Wilde Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to? Dave Sim

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage

of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Abraham Lincoln Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. Ernest Hemingway Where liberty dies, evil grows. Hamid Karzai Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. George Eliot My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes. Stephan Jenkins

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances

of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. Ziyi Zhang In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. William Blake Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock. Gale Norton You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. Lewis B. Smedes

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those

contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land. Daniel Inouye The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know. Billy Connolly Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. Francis Bacon I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans. Gareth Gates It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain

After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved

to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system. Dick Thornburgh If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. Mae West I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often. Roy Jenkins I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know. Dave Navarro Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. Abraham Flexner

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land;

but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only. Donald Cargill The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. Arthur Schopenhauer While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans. Tom Harkin Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it. David Prowse To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question. Eric Hoffer

Another example of the educational inequality is the current debate over publicly financed school vouchers

which will provide educational opportunities to a privileged handful, but deprive public schools of desperately needed resources. Bobby Scott Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. George S. Patton A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog. Irving Babbitt It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. Oscar Wilde Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels. Henry Fox

Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also

imposed a heavy burden on employers - both public and private - who are struggling to provide affordable health insurance coverage to their workers. Susan Collins My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. Renee Fleming As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more. Jules Renard You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment. Judy Holliday In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect. Paul Goodman

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of

your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do? Bill Gates I have to remind myself not to set boundaries. Richard Thompson My bed is actually two king beds put together. Cindy Margolis Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. Thomas Hunt Morgan If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person. Frank Luntz

During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me

and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going. James W. Black Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed. Paul Harris When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long. Gloria Stuart In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids. Frederick Sanger I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. Dinah Sheridan

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of

death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaas Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Jean Anouilh I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. Jeremy London For they conquer who believe they can. John Dryden

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other

things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors. Lili Taylor Either war is obsolete, or men are. R. Buckminster Fuller Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. Martha Graham I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing. Dana Hill I never thought I would be singing for the world. Patti LaBelle

Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever

known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies. Marvin Hamlisch What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. Vernon Howard I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you're a teenager and you go to high school and you're in the business and you are known. Heather Matarazzo The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. Neal Stephenson One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing. Dylan Moran

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division,

of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration. Ed Rendell Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. John Dewey Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. Karl Rahner Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. Epictetus A decent boldness ever meets with friends. Homer

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system

that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. William James In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute. Margaret Spellings I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops. Oscar de la Renta I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. Catherine Zeta-Jones While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. Horace

NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our

independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated. You are not willing to sacrifice lives to achieve our surrender. But we are willing to die to defend our rights as an independent sovereign nation. Slobodan Milosevic The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office. Samuel Dash Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? Steven Wright Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. Robert Graves

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few

things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. Samuel Johnson Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008. Lindsey Graham I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer. Francis W. Newman I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. Edgar Rice Burroughs

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I

just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it. Shannon Lucid If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. Hal Borland There is no slavery but ignorance. Robert Green Ingersoll If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals. Robert Conklin I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. Luther Vandross

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done

and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other. H. G. Wells When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things. Michelle Rodriguez The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there. Johnny Depp We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government. John Abizaid I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention. Edward Blake

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason

or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. David Hume I feel like everything has happened naturally. Ryan Gosling Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. Red Auerbach I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months. Estelle Morris IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. Murray Walker

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