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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and

for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts. Mary Harris Jones Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. Channing Pollock You are the most powerful cultural force in the world. William J. Clinton A slighted woman knows no bounds. John Vanbrugh Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia There's no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level. Joan D. Vinge

Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all

the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. Daniel De Leon Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. Anais Nin The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost. Michael Gerber If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America. Harriet Martineau Learn to think impartially. Joseph Chamberlain It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. Bertolt Brecht There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting. Suzanne Vega

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on

old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. Ansel Adams Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. Raoul Vaneigem Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein The only thing holding us back is ourselves. Brad Henry Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. James Lee Burke

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been

born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.' Neale Donald Walsch I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated. Avril Lavigne It was part of your religion to hate the British. Rebecca Harding Davis I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent. Young Buck I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. Pete Seeger Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. Lord Byron My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated. Eva Longoria

Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals

ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it. Joseph Lancaster Politics is the enemy of the imagination. Ian Mcewan Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. W. H. Auden Pictures must not be too picturesque. Ralph Waldo Emerson The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. Francis Bacon For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford. Paul Martin In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything. William J. Clinton

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same

moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear! William Allen Butler There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market. David Milne Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. Virginia Woolf Rock and rollers can get you the youth buzz, and younger people are fanatical readers. James Ellroy I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was. David Thewlis You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed. Joan Crawford

It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a

long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first. Jason Newsted I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. Don Nickles Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. Baruch Spinoza Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. Orson Welles I would rather feel things in extreme than not at all. Bonnie Raitt There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful. Bill Condon All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Henry Ward Beecher

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience

of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. John Stuart Mill Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same. Bill Toomey I've been around the block a lot and I've had a merry trail for 55 years. Jerry Stiller Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. Alexander Meiklejohn Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million. David R. Brower We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception. Vernon Howard Who says I am not under the special protection of God? Adolf Hitler

I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the

US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth. Ralph Boston What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. Dan Quayle Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength. Charles Caleb Colton I like getting toilet paper thrown at me. Joel Madden These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. Sam Snead When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun. Randy Johnson Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. Prem Rawat

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes

itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I feel for the players. Vanna White The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. Clint Eastwood We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs. Elizabeth Vargas That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it. Laurie Lee Iran has a dismal record on human rights. Howard Berman Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases. Tom Allen

So I think it's important to communicate with the people in terms of what the

real facts are on these proposals and try to have a discussion and a dialogue that gives people information. I think they're hungry for that rather than just political rhetoric. John Podesta I never though much about race. Thelonious Monk But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up. Jane Harman Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow. William Shakespeare It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded. Rodney King Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us. John Terry

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage

to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. Major Taylor If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done. Norman Vincent Peale If you want more, you have to require more from yourself. Phil McGraw Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. Michel de Montaigne God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. Albert Einstein The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. Paul D. Boyer Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. Havelock Ellis

Programmers and marketing people know how to get into your subconscious - they spend millions

of dollars researching colors, shapes, designs, symbols, that affect your preferences, and they can make you feel warm, trusting, like buying. They can manipulate you. Richard Hatch The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late. Ovid Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts. Donny Osmond But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well. Beau Bridges The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value. Leonard Orr The United Nations is a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. Woody Allen

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a

matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Georges Bataille I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. Winston Churchill In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies. Stephen Leacock And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors. Jeffrey Tambor Some of the routines come back very easily. We do it off the top of our heads. Jerry Stiller My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. Rodney Dangerfield Does being a feminist mean that I believe that I'm as good as any man? Yes. Yasmine Bleeth

Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and

techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so. Henry W. Kendall Leaders grasp nettles. David Ogilvy Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party. Richard J. Daley Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg C. Lichtenberg Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. William Shakespeare Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government. King George V Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. George Santayana

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at

conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. Paul Gillmor Women are women, and hurray for that. John Galliano Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Thomas Fuller Night is the mother of counsels. George Herbert There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. Imran Khan To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man. Michael Servetus I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself. Richard Thompson

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one

hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues. Muddy Waters I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least. Vince McMahon Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry. Richard King Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf. Arthur Baer During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. John James Audubon A car for every purse and purpose. Alfred P. Sloan Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics. Merton Miller

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I

can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government. Gary Coleman Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. James Reston Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. Richard D. James There's always someone following your next step. Cindy Margolis I don't need to worry about identity theft because no one wants to be me. Jay London Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. Charles Simic Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. Jeffrey Sachs

I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up

on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population. Jay Roach Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul At this point, I wouldn't be able to digest meat, and I don't like eating things with faces. Joely Fisher A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. Raymond Chandler Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. Anthony Eden My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s. Juice Newton Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun

I don't know what he meant by 'they're after me.' And then I said, 'You

know, Bobby, I'm here for you. If you need any help, give me a call.' And then he did call me about a week later, and wanted to know if I had a good attorney. Tommy Bond I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. Ronald Reagan I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. Eddie Rickenbacker You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution. Margaret Spellings All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them. Magic Johnson The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright. Catherine Keener

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's

the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. J. D. Salinger I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course. Ruth Warrick I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all. Sterling Hayden I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots. Smokey Robinson At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. Estelle Morris Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other. Clayton Moore As soon as there is life there is danger. Ralph Waldo Emerson

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will

remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall. Henry Vaughan Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. William Blake I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth. Brad Pitt Faith is a higher faculty than reason. H. C. Bailey I was born nine months premature. Jay London Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. Princess Diana Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? T. S. Eliot

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential

ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team. Benjamin Franklin Fairless We are minor in everything but our passions. Elizabeth Bowen I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person. Charles Evers A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn I'd like to give divorce a good name. Geraldo Rivera Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. Desmond Morris When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. Irving Layton

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police

are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. Stanley Crouch Reality is a sliding door. Ralph Waldo Emerson When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use. Joseph Stalin George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar. Peter Mayhew That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity. Gloria Gaynor In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Emile M. Cioran Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups. Cathy Guisewite

It's true that the war in Iraq opened a distance in relations between part of

Europe and the U.S. government, but our basic ties are stronger than that. We share democracy, free markets and a commitment to Western security. We differ on how to guarantee that security. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero A hair divides what is false and true. Omar Khayyam A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee. Arnold H. Glasow The idea is in my head to put it down is nothing. Milton Avery God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group. John C. Reilly Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. George Herbert This Nation has realized significant environmental improvements over the last three decades. Jerry Costello

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both

emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated. Franjo Tudjman I get a great high from writing. Walter Hill Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. Ramakrishna A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else. John B. Keane I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing. Aaron Eckhart I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. James Ellroy The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life. Darrell Royal

So I come before you with a budget that is honest in its discussion of

our challenges, creative in its possible solutions, compassionate in its commitment to our most vulnerable, and balanced on the bottom line. James H. Douglas, Jr. The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal. Satchel Paige Never have more children than you have car windows. Erma Bombeck I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner. David Cross A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. H. L. Mencken I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else. Coleman Hawkins An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. Margaret Atwood

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents

in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. Dick Thornburgh When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. Elias Canetti Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. Thomas Nashe When you have this many losses, you don't have a following. Eddie Bernice Johnson If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come? Yunus Emre It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something. Richard Thompson Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation. Mary Bono

I'm more prone to his '70s material, which is what I was around for and

watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I'm more drawn to the darker, sadder songs. Lisa Marie Presley Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. Jawaharlal Nehru I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot. Frank Richard Stockton Never let your dreams go away. Mike Piazza It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity. Will Wright Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job. David Caruso The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943,

both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. Frederick Sanger The road to success runs uphill. Willie Davis No man is happy; he is at best fortunate. Solon You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. Saul Bellow Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't. Marissa Mayer Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. Erma Bombeck

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but

he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. Karen Hughes Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake. Walter Lord Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. Edwin Arnold Partying is such sweet sorrow. Robert Byrne A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. Michael Bergin Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football. John Heisman People take songs so literally. Richard Marx

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting

if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it? Peter Wright Say what you know, do what you must, come what may. Sofia Kovalevskaya There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Karen Black All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. Josh Billings In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. William Collins I'm the slowest reader in the world, because I perform it all in my head. Honor Blackman

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder

time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved. Bruce Davison Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. Edmond Halley Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs? Spike Milligan Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people. Nigel Short Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing. Michael Kennedy Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Unknown He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong. Benjamin Disraeli

I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly

misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later. Kevin Mitnick To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job. Chin-Ning Chu The faster you go, the shorter you are. Albert Einstein I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. Steven Pinker I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute. Jennifer Love Hewitt I'm a winner each and every time I go into the ring. George Foreman People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant. Ellen DeGeneres

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than

any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently. Leonard Orr That's wonderful. And what did you do with the money? Miriam Hopkins How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. R. Buckminster Fuller Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. Roh Moo-hyun He's passed from rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever. Michael Foot Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy. Jesse Jackson If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten

I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson.

The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream 'secular' press has been very, very nice. Daniel Smith Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas. Robert Plant I will always support legislation which respects and values life. Gresham Barrett The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure. Nicholas Meyer Television is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Don't think of your courses as providing all you need for your career. Mike Thompson However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're

going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. Derek Jarman It appears from Mr. Smith's account that there is no scarcity of buffalo as he penetrated the country. William Henry Ashley If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen. Ronald Reagan I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience. Jeremy London If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. William Shakespeare Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke. Hermann Hesse There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path,

give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. Kin Hubbard There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq. George Clooney Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. Stockwell Day We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Require... electoral votes to be allocated in proportion to the popular votes. Robert A. Dahl What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. Samuel Beckett I want to give producers more financial security. Estelle Morris

One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what

you believe, in knowing that if you don't, you will never like yourself. When you compromise out of fear or ambition, it eats inside you. Samuel Dash We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. Tony Robbins A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft. Patti LaBelle Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. Richard Corliss Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous. Mencius All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle. Edie Adams Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Rem Koolhaas

I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book.

There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did. Jimmy Carl Black It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. E. B. White What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be? Nido Qubein To work is to feel alive. Tony Bennett It's all about humanity, humility, and integrity. Debra Wilson I have been sworn against by perjured and wicked people. William Kidd Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds. Tim Vine

There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio,

or record, or whatever. That even includes myself. In the past, I'd say, 'Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.' Chuck D Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment. Ellis Peters The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem. Gary Lineker I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one. Brian Clough Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. Arthur Schopenhauer The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Charles Kuralt Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there. David Hackworth

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a

picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. Basil Bunting I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once. Ian Somerhalder Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never. Anna Jameson In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal. Patricia Ireland I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it. Sandy Koufax Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing. Herbert Hoover

Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff

out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting. Robert Carlyle Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. Lord Melbourne I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop, thanks. Evan Hunter I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure. Hernan Cortes If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst. Joan Crawford One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be. Harold Warner

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or

defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. Lawrence Durrell Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all. Josefa Iloilo But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997. Richard Marx When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not. Mark Twain Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together. Robert South Lives in eternity's sun rise. William Blake We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious. David Steinberg

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day

that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous. Michelle Trachtenberg Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. Lloyd Alexander About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. Will Rogers I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car. Alain Prost What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do. Jerry Gillies One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future. Francois Jacob

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes

great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played. Conrad Veidt For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Boethius In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. Edward Gibbon I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear. David Boreanaz I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid. Gary Burghoff I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly. John Hughes All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. Marcus Tullius Cicero

The administration's reckless plan doesn't do one thing to ensure the long term

security of social security, rather it undermines our economy. We need a budget and a fiscal policy that reflects the values and interests of America and restores fiscal discipline. Debbie Stabenow Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it. John Galliano Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving. Eddie Bracken The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. Michel de Montaigne Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. William Hazlitt I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emile M. Cioran In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. Tacitus

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The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President

Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. Ted Olson In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. Steve Buscemi Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. Spencer Abraham When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes! Ken Hensley I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. Susan George Someti...

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're

serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. John Blair I'll never get used to living without Mo, but the painful things that surround what happened to him aren't so painful any more-not so raw or so new. Robin Gibb When I was growing up, it was 'Communists'. Now it's 'Terrorists'. So you always have to have somebody to fight and be afraid of, so the war machine can build more bombs, guns, and bullets and everything. Cindy Sheehan We have to make sure that we are a force for peace and stability in the world, and that we're prepared to defend freedom and the security of the American people. Thad Cochran I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission. Tom Hayden Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease. John Witherspoon ...

I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me

fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have. Lou Henry Hoover I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world. Anthony Braxton You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself. James A. Baldwin It now becomes clear why the Bush Administration has been vigorously opposing congressional hearings. The Bush Administration has been engaged in a conspiracy of silence. Cynthia McKinney I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater. John Hughes Just what you want to be, y...

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave

that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another. Katie Kitamura In politics, you've got to have a fallback in our line of work because your career can be over in an instant. Not that I would make much money playing a harmonica. Tim Kaine I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male. Amber Heard Germans have an understanding of history and cannot allow themselves to forget it. It may be a curse, but in some ways, it's a blessing. It makes them cautious. Simon Rattle If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of...

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group

of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. William Golding I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play. Aja Naomi King I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia. Chrystia Freeland I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes. Antony Johnston Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw ...

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who

have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs. Freeman Dyson I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. Norman Wisdom I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens. John Linder I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy. Joss Whedon People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint. Joel Coen I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music. Chuck Mangione Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take ...

I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly

would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology. Major Owens The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. Daniel Bell I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum. Anita Baker I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics. George Crumb An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. Bo Bennett HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask fo...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the

need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. Leo Rosten I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world! Lea DeLaria First of all, we were never not speaking. It's gotten so blown out of proportion. It was a very straightforward difference of opinion. I think because we were so private and refused to talk about it, these stories just got out of control. Julie Nixon Eisenhower My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again! Ben Elton It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. Sam Levenson On gym days, I don't get to my de...

It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme'

'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful. Wendell Pierce I never look at the size of the film when I'm looking for a part. Eric Bana I only watch MSNBC for the news. Andre Leon Talley I married my wife because I love her and I want to spend the rest of my life with her. Michael Schiavo In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. Tahar Ben Jelloun If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Robert Anton Wilson The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power. Jerry Rubin You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up. Fantasia Barrino Anything to do with the land, I love. Chris LeDoux ...

Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to

own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along. Marc Maron I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit. Dakota Fanning All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. Paul von Hindenburg Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! Tony Robbins My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Winfield Scott Hancock He who knows ho...