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One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why

try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. Harriet Beecher Stowe The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. Orison Swett Marden When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right! Glenn Hughes I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses. Carlos Santana You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma. Wanda Jackson

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt

for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein A good laugh is sunshine in the house. William Makepeace Thackeray Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. Matthew Arnold He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it. Mel Ott The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before. Carol P. Christ

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea

grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another. Yo-Yo Ma Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. Bill Vaughan Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. Giacomo Leopardi It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it. Ramakrishna You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. It's that simple. Phil Knight

I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same

territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. Richard Russo Art is life's dream interpretation. Otto Rank If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? Tom Barrett This is God's world this is not the media's world. Terrell Owens Don't set your wit against a child. Jonathan Swift

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for

the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. David R. Brower Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction. George W. Bush It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. John Hope Franklin When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. Jack Kevorkian In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died. Brion James

The type of contract between players and producers is, I feel, antiquated in form and

abstract in concept. We have no privacies which producers cannot invade, they trade us like cattle, boss us like children. Teresa Wright No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics. Evander Holyfield What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way. Mary Hunter Austin If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens. Grandma Moses I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin. Joe E. Lewis

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances,

but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. Vaughn Monroe Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. Quintilian If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Unknown In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books. Paula Danziger Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Pablo Picasso

I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out

there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing. J. T. Walsh The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. Brian Greene I trained myself to perform on the field. Steve Carlton To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. Katharine Anthony I've worked with some incredibly difficult directors but my understanding is that a lot of the best people are driven from a place of being extremely challenging and dark within their way. Josh Lucas

The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without

evidence; he embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition. Nancy Pelosi Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. John Dryden Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones. Theodore Roosevelt We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is. Arthur Middleton We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power. Denis Kearney

I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still

you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere. Rebecca Romijn Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. Dean Koontz The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors. John Singleton Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. Claude Debussy Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of

training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. Arnold Schwarzenegger Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. An Wang I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages. Connie Chung Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true. Elias Canetti

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we

didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home. Jim Capaldi DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. Bill Gates Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets. Max Baucus The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. Jose Eduardo dos Santos I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs. Lizzie Andrew Borden

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use.

I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned. Graham Nelson The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god. Marilyn Manson Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult. Ken Russell I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music. George Crumb I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs. Patricia Ireland

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people

and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. Maxine Waters A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. Susan Sontag An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer. Fred Allen The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success. James Cash Penney Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. Janice Dickinson

I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents,

who are both actors. Bedtime stories from when I was about two/three to when I was about 15. In fact they didn't stop until I eventually kind of kicked them out of my bedroom. Samuel West When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. Les Paul All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santayana The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine Butler Hathaway

Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government

intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights. Pete Stark We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through. Wislawa Szymborska I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it. Philip J. Kaplan I consider myself an inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Ray Kurzweil

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything

you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink. Earl Long The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. Napoleon Bonaparte You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits. Denis Waitley I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. Roger Moore This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back. Michael N. Castle

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to

enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. William Dunbar I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week. George Stephen The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. Mark Twain Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work. Andy Goldsworthy In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China. Li Peng

In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois

right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things. Art Garfunkel Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun. Daniel Pinkwater You need to make relationships to help you. Andrew Shue That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. Henry George

When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the

entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark. Ed Smith Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient. Barney Oliver I try to tell the truth. Tucker Carlson Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised. Daniel Pinkwater I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians. Alexander the Great

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for

lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! Georges Bernanos There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination. Pat Cash A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. Mignon McLaughlin I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category. Sun Ra What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. Al Lewis

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world,

a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. Cornelia Otis Skinner To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. Erich Fromm Education, like neurosis, begins at home. Milton Sapirstein It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it. George H. W. Bush A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. Dirk Benedict

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it

integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women. Natalie Portman A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it. Jim Jones I've met enough KGB colonels in my life. Garry Kasparov It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance? Ronald Reagan

We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't

know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared. Mary Kay Ash Friends are the sunshine of life. John Hay Take care, these Italians, full of failings, are neither you, nor me; they are your neighbors, the ones you meet on the staircase and whom you do not like to greet. Alberto Sordi It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized. Barbara Kruger It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. Dennis Banks

I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about

it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know. Richard Grimes Television is simply automated daydreaming. Lee Loevinger When you're in a movie, they treat you like you're four years old and give you whatever you want. Eric Stoltz Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. Denis Waitley We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure. John F. Kerry

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