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We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved.

It had its ups and downs, but it was mostly ups for the four of us. We got along well almost all of the time. Hey! We liked each other and we still do. Dave Blood Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism. Said Musa I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award. Aaron Neville In misfortune, which friend remains a friend? Euripides The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. Daniel D. Palmer I'm the original. Sally Rand Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place. Rosalynn Carter

One thing I always heard from the begining when I talked about this being a

movie - was that the rule is that animated movies don't work unless they're Disney movies for kids. Unless they're family movies. Mike Judge Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. Homer By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. Emile M. Cioran I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. Jack Levine Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other. Tennessee Williams Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. T. S. Eliot

The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a

rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire. Yahoo Serious Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. William Samuel Johnson Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy. Billy Bob Thornton In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. Theodor Adorno I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives. Deion Sanders I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. John Peel Don't worry about polls, but if you do, don't admit it. Rosalynn Carter

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the

1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. Richard Gough The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body. Daniel D. Palmer My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. Erma Bombeck No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public. George McGovern To possess taste, one must have some soul. Luc de Clapiers I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job. Bernie Mac He who praises everybody, praises nobody. Samuel Johnson

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are

being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. Gene Robinson I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous. Lefty Gomez I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. Broderick Crawford It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in. Anne Dudley Thank goodness we don't live in medieval times, when people fought wars over ideas. Wojciech Jaruzelski I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple. Moe Howard Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation? Gale Norton

I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went

to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults. Bobby Vinton Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. Thorne Smith People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not. Earl Nightingale The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image. Jane Roberts Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger. Edgar Rice Burroughs To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. Enoch Powell The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Andre Gide

I firmly believe that as voters come to learn more and more about John Kerry

and learn more and more about his message that they're going to want a President who is willing to address the fact that we didn't have a post-war plan in Iraq. Harold Ford, Jr. I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants. Giulio Andreotti We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. Emile M. Cioran I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. Jennie Garth I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them. Stan Lee The only thing I like about rich people is their money. Nancy Astor Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. Cyndi Lauper

I think that every show on television has its place. I think Married With Children

or, I don't know, The Nanny... some people want to go home, turn on the TV and be able to iron their clothes or grab a sandwich. Come out and catch a joke and not have to follow the story. Peter Krause I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. H. L. Mencken All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. Martin Luther King, Jr. You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable. Cathy Freeman They want to derail peace because they want to plunge Northern Ireland back into armed conflict. Peter Mandelson The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. Wallis Simpson

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at

so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. Rudyard Kipling What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl. Roma Downey I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. Anne Frank For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections. Peace Pilgrim Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The men have long been unpaid and need relief. John Hawkins

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was

what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do. Roger Angell Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human. Edward T. Hall I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. John Galsworthy Israel has always been and must always be America's strongest ally. George Pataki I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. Margaret Forster Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. Rene Descartes

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too

far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. Tom Allen I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. Susie Bright To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. William Hazlitt A man of courage is also full of faith. Marcus Tullius Cicero Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training. Michael Shermer Playing golf is like learning a foreign language. Henry Longhurst

I believe that two people are connected at the heart, and it doesn't matter what

you do, or who you are or where you live; there are no boundaries or barriers if two people are destined to be together. Julia Roberts I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. Walter Gilbert Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. John Metcalf Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership? Bill Kristol To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. Luc de Clapiers It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. Oscar Wilde Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that

I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do. Debbie Gibson Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system. Jerry Costello I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows. Bea Arthur Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. Owen D. Young War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base. Jean Anouilh When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Michael Ondaatje

I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to

come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with. William Kempe God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful. Donna Summer People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones. Charles Kettering Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. William Hamilton Maxwell Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem. Brent Scowcroft It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide. Mike Judge Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. Nancy Banks Smith

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But

all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. Henrik Ibsen I was the bad kid in school. I was usually in trouble. Scott Caan One of Brando's problems is that he can't have a conversation with anyone. Peter Bart In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. Bob Dylan McGovern is so far left that he is in danger of falling off the earth. John G. Schmitz We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. William Penn The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. Donna Leon

I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets

of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs. Barry Mann I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late. Jim Diamond A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. Elbert Hubbard I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government. Arnold Schwarzenegger Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story. Young Buck

The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country

is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads. John Moody Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? Emile M. Cioran But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view. Arthur Herzog I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive. Charles Evers I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between. Darrell Royal The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you. Chanakya What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality. Andy Kaufman

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with

their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you. Arthur Levitt Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. Hugh Mackay The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting. Alfred Sisley I'm so good and so loving that men don't believe it. Brenda Fassie I think I sound like Barry White. Gloria Gaynor As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around. Jimmy Carl Black Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. Garrison Keillor

Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through

for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly. Julian McMahon With creative people, truly new horizons open up. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative. Tracy Kidder To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners. Melinda Gates The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. Charles Kettering What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe. Peter Mandelson

Some of the money from the senior players goes to helping out

the younger kids. It is from the players' pool, the fines for being late and so on. Some will go to something like the tsunami appeal and some to helping out young players. John Terry Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. Michael Korda I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. Georg Trakl I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table. Al Alvarez There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books. Omar Torrijos Herrera Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds

of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. John Corbett I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for? Alex Rodriguez Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. Laurence Sterne The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish! Craig Bruce I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. Roberto Clemente The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. John Ruskin The best of seers is he who guesses well. Euripides

I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture

turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life. Tom Cruise Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill I absolutely don't believe in anything. Full stop. Including luck. Al Alvarez One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. Virgil Success tempts many to their ruin. Phaedrus If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug Larson In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world. Gordon Brown

Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that

it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves. John Osborne Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing. Margaret Deland Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cloning will enable mankind to reach eternal life. Claude Vorilhon I am convinced that nobody should be afraid of peace. Albert Reynolds Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness. William Watson In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. Patti Smith

When we ask American men and women in uniform to fight for this country and

to defend this country's interest and then to send them overseas, there is no question we have an obligation to protect them and provide for their safety. Byron Dorgan Now back in those days, to become a rural mail carrier you had to be approved by congress. Betty Hill Truly to sing, that is a different breath. Rainer Maria Rilke Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. Al Bernstein I have been underestimated for decades. I have done very well that way. Helmut Kohl Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles. Zsa Zsa Gabor The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age. Fritz Weaver

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together

let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce. John F. Kennedy Failure is unfortunately as common as success. Sanjay Kumar If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth. Daisy Berkowitz A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave. Kirsten Dunst For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment. Pierre de Coubertin Get there first with the most. Nathan Bedford Forrest

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when

one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. Henri Poincare Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation. Edward T. Hall I can't do anything in a minute. Lizzie Andrew Borden I will return and I will be a million. Evita Peron The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends. Jean Cocteau Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn! Robert Burns There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. Mark Twain

I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and

say 'How did this ever get on the air?' I mean, they finally have a planet that's populated with a black race and then they present them as savage warriors, and the men want the white girl! Denise Crosby If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army. Casey Stengel There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death. Stephen Evans The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it. Mark E. Smith If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is. William Wyler I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show. Harry Hamlin

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even

eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it. Daniel J. Boorstin To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. Minna Antrim I always knew that I wanted to be an artist. Maynard James Keenan A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. Frederick Douglass We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. Knute Nelson This work is the result of a meeting of minds from two of the most successful men in their respective fields. Will Carling AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. Susan Sontag

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the

opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of! Dwayne Johnson We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Henri Frederic Amiel It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. Charles Dickens To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Alan Moore I have a job that I truly love, and an enormous crew of people that can do things better than I can! Rick Baker

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and

acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Pablo Casals A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion. Mahatma Gandhi Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Will Rogers I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench. Sparky Anderson I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy. Franz Kafka Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. Albert Einstein Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing. Ted Shackelford

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work.

If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it. Don Bluth I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged. Pauline Hanson The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. James Jeans Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man. Jean Ingelow Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. Alan Bennett What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close. Tori Amos Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man. James Thurber

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should

disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking. Charles Lamb For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. Guillermo del Toro Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. W. Clement Stone Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father. Patricia Schroeder The best climber in the world is the one that has the most fun. Alex Lowe If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. Pierre de Coubertin To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake

We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for

many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways. John Desmond Bernal The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Charles Caleb Colton We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! Lee Ryan All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers. Esther Williams My values, our values, aren't about pointing fingers. They are about offering a helping hand. Kathleen Blanco A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it. Michael Bay

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is

piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. Omar Bongo It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life. Jimi Hendrix I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller I want to be an honest man and a good writer. James A. Baldwin I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. Peter Straub Today it's not culture; it's box office. Alex North

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do

more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. Samuel Johnson If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. David Gest Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. Kin Hubbard You ought to try being cruel to some people. Mike Judge Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. Walt Whitman The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. Robert Lowell There's more to anybody. Just because you haven't noticed it, that's your problem, that's not mine. Al Lewis

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager

passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. Eleanor Roosevelt When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door. Jacques Chirac My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada. Preston Manning It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there. Roland Emmerich There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. Francis Arinze All the things I love is what my business is all about. Martha Stewart Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Charles M. Schulz

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies

in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. Lynne Cheney A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it. Harry S Truman For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. Francis Thompson The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up. Minnie Pearl The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. Dalai Lama Art for art's sake, money for God's sake. Simon Raven If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? Charles de Lint

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history.

That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. Grace Kelly The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast. Steven Wright A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. David Mallet There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. Stephen Leacock I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me. Susan Powter

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than

the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. Stephen Jay Gould No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins. Eugene McCarthy Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike. Madame de Stael In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for. Elijah Wood We report the news. Fox talks about the news. Jonathan Klein There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Friedrich Schiller We didn't make the mistakes that many other cities did. Ivan Allen

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like

you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. Woody Guthrie The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. Edmund Waller Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. Gerald F. Lieberman Aaron Echolls is one of the best characters that I've ever played. Harry Hamlin Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Rabindranath Tagore I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement. Ovid Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. George Herbert

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling.

One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. Barbara Hepworth Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. Hosea Ballou Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Russell Baker Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes. Lamar Alexander Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. George Eliot The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own. Robert Englund I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others. Guillermo del Toro

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul

from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley America does not fight for land, glory or riches. Virginia Foxx Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune. Tom Peters The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. Confucius Nobody picks on a strong man. Charles Atlas Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist. Yasser Arafat Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. Horace Mann

Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't

affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm. Merton Miller One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. Sophie Swetchine There are two words for everything. E. V. Lucas You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. Swami Vivekananda Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another. Arthur Conan Doyle

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to

be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. Tucker Carlson You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury I don't know what would have been worse: If Mira had come home one day to say she was gay or an actress. Paul Sorvino War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. Ambrose Bierce We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers. Pat Williams It simply is not cost affective to cover stories from independent sources. Ben Edwards People have known me for so long, I'm just Della to them. Della Reese

Many times I felt like I'd do better than what the director did, but some

of them got a little discouraged because they didn't have full charge of making the film, and sometimes there'd be battles of egos. Ray Harryhausen Men are born to succeed, not to fail. Henry David Thoreau It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. Albert Camus Science is but an image of the truth. Francis Bacon When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. Mignon McLaughlin Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth. Charles Ives Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. Miguel de Cervantes

There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men.

I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force. Ted Stevens People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. Norman Cousins I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner. Eliot Engel Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail. Kinky Friedman You can often measure a person by the size of his dream. Robert H. Schuller Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God. Edward T. Hall Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato

I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where

everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real. Zach Braff My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave. Mark Ruffalo By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with. Duke Ellington I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. Horatio Nelson The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. Pauline Kael We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. Eric Hoffer The writer is the engineer of the human soul. Joseph Stalin

I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they

all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.' Harry Nilsson We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town. Toby Keith Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s. Joe Cocker There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. Bill Cosby I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards. Berkeley Breathed The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. Titus Flavius Vespasian I think I jump around more when I'm alone. Nicolas Cage

If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been

crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me. Lars von Trier The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction. Dan Simmons One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it. Paul Harris My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City? Henny Youngman Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. Stevie Wonder I always say the next one is my favorite. Walter Hill

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid

self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. Christian Nestell Bovee Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you. Georg Hermes When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. Allan Sherman You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. Charles Barkley Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. Charles Fillmore I couldn't stand that my husband was being unfaithful. I am Raquel Welch - understand? Raquel Welch

You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read

Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that. H. R. Giger Every human must take responsibility for his actions. Jalal Talabani I've never been into parties, premieres or night-clubbing. Barry Gibb The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. Henry Ward Beecher Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here. Rodger Ward It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. Dan Quayle I abide where there is a fight against wrong. Mary Harris Jones

You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why

the painting is great. The description of a lousy painting and the description of a great painting will very much sound the same. Chuck Close Each moment is a place you've never been. Mark Strand We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. Ray Kroc I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. Franklin D. Roosevelt Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine. Alison Krauss I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself. Elizabeth Barton If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee. George Nethercutt

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are

not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen. Johnny Damon It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die. Franco Nero We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why. Flora Lewis The possible is constantly being redefined, and I care deeply about helping humanity move forward. Paul Allen There is no possible source of evil except good. Saint Augustine There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting. Craig Stevens After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that. Reggie Jackson

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese

all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do. Bart Gordon Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. Herb Caen When people are like each other they tend to like each other. Tony Robbins Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. Anatole France I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame. Franka Potente But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. Pete Seeger I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself. Bobby Sherman

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all

worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together. Eric San A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator. Paul Valery There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. Benjamin Disraeli I made my first complete song when I was 9. Ludacris The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt I think I have enough tattoos for now. If I get any others, I'll probably do my kids initials. Niki Taylor Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. Thomas Jefferson

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I

do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do? Kate Millett Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'. Evelyn Waugh Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. Viktor E. Frankl Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself. Stuart Wilde Sharing a triumph with someone you love is an incredible high. Cynthia Weil Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing. Ilya Ehrenburg

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of

the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. Ronald Reagan My private life has nothing to do with my films. Fritz Lang Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. Margaret Thatcher As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I call it like I see it. I don't hold back when it comes to being candid on the hot issues. Jerry Doyle This was just one of many times God has spared me. Jack Kelley Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! Matthew Arnold

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the

point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance. John Anderson If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. Chris Martin The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. Catherine McCormack The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr. Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. William Penn We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. Pearl S. Buck Pain is never permanent. Saint Teresa of Avila

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim

of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make. Carl Barks Everything makes me nervous - except making films. Elizabeth Taylor A face that is really lovely in repose can fall apart if, when its owner stars to talk, she distorts every feature. Loretta Young I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful. Sean Booth I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life. Corazon Aquino It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James A. Baldwin Houston, we've had a problem. Jim Lovell

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to

hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs. John le Carre Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought. Simon Wiesenthal It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. Desiderius Erasmus No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. Frederick William Robertson Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit. George Fox Peace is the first thing the angels sang. John Keble My work has social implications, it functions in a social arena. Andres Serrano

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the

living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. Philip Schaff It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. James Mackintosh Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster One has to have the courage of one's pessimism. Ian Mcewan Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. Thomas Jefferson Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. Frank Zappa Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little. Michael Rosenbaum

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler

of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights. George B. McClellan No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port. Michel de Montaigne Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience. Nicholas Lea No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone. M. Night Shyamalan And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time. Beau Bridges So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. Suzanne Farrell

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region. He wound

up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision. Osama bin Laden Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Mahatma Gandhi Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. Vernon Howard I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton By indignities men come to dignities. Francis Bacon His head was full of larceny, but his feet were honest. Arthur Baer

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point

of view of their morphology, their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life. Theophrastus I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second. Bobby Scott Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. Horace I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. Terrell Owens I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming. W. C. Fields Gone are the days when reality fed the feminist movement. Tammy Bruce Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less. Edward Fitzgerald

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