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The only person I've worked with on my album was Kanye. And between the

stuff that I've done and the stuff that he's assisted on and produced for me for this album, I don't even need anything else. Nick Cannon Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. Charles Eastman To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. Sophie Swetchine Being a foreigner is not a disease. Alden Nowlan My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more. Walter Matthau The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. Marjorie Holmes When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. Stephen J. Field
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Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret

anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. Louis Farrakhan Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Blaise Pascal Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited. Napoleon Hill One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Bryant H. McGill Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. Ralph Waldo Emerson Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. Mark Twain
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There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and

software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. John Baldacci Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing Youth condemns; maturity condones. Amy Lowell When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss. Leonardo DiCaprio There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. Frank McCourt Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Beilby Porteus Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart
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The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the

suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. Howard Dean They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think. Matthew Prior You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life. Greta Garbo We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible. Penelope Lively I always thought of Levittown as a joke. Bill Griffith Wise people say nothing in dangerous times. John Selden No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. James A. Baldwin
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from

my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. Louis Aragon Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. William Hazlitt Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. John James Audubon I meet with people in the industry on an ongoing basis. Mike Johanns Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. William Davenant For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Jim Walsh Therapy was the biggest romance of my life. Dar Williams
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The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the

position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free. Kim Il-sung The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it. James Woods I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over. Mats Sundin The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk. Ogden Nash Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter I just go to lunch. And I never know when something is going into the file and something is not. Donna Leon I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright. Harvey Ball
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What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United

States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. Nick Clooney They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness. Graham Greene The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. Murray Kempton Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been. Arthur Ransome If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. Gabriel Garcia Marquez I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country. Christopher Dodd I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation. George Shearing
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I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that

can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song. Clint Black Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them. Billy Dee Williams A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Jim Morrison I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer. Keith Moon He must be lightning slow. Ron Atkinson I open to anything... just about anything. Luke Perry Money is to my social existence what health is to my body. Mason Cooley
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As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when

I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long. Arnold Schwarzenegger We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added. Ronald Reagan Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games. Darrell Royal The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward. Shana Alexander Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. Robert Bridges You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed? Bryan Ferry I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. Jimmy Carter
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I guess because you study the character and you do all those things. But when

it comes down to it, it's still my performance, it's still my interpretation. I'm not going to, you know, be a clone - well, I was a clone of Richard Dean Anderson! Michael Welch It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style. Joe Cocker We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring. Daniel Johns A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street. Laurence J. Peter If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. Arnold Schwarzenegger Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments. Joe Tex I didn't come to New York to be a star, I brought my star with me. Reggie Jackson
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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence

of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. Simone Weil Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it. Ellen Terry Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. Stephen Breyer Life obliges me to do something, so I paint. Rene Magritte And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning. Alanis Morissette Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. Abu Bakr
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Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the

sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas. Henry Ford The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values. Herbie Hancock All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Helen Keller Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts. Chuck Grassley We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. Erich Fromm The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Francis Bacon
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that

this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective. Major Owens My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. Anna Lee We are eternally linked not just to each other but our environment. Herbie Hancock Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. John Gardner The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. Frederick Locker-Lampson I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision. Amy Smart I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. Nelson Mandela
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I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design

for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. Don Bluth The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation. Mary Ritter Beard A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity. Edward Tufte I would love to do top of pops as a grandma. Tina Charles There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual. Krzysztof Kieslowski A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one. David R. Brower I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Groucho Marx
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I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out

on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards. Suzy Bogguss Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. William Shakespeare To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing. John James Audubon As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two. Norman Wisdom Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. Louise L. Hay We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism. Huey Newton Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. Frank Moore Colby
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That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't

tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me. Kelly Lynch I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. John Walker Lindh Today you can't go by the titles of the shows to know what the content of the show may be. Donna Douglas It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. Friedrich Schiller We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny. James H. Douglas, Jr. It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. Gerald F. Lieberman
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'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all

students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. Dianne Feinstein You couldn't have done this without killing an Arab prince. Michael Scheuer I'm a horrible public speaker. Bill Condon Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil. Charles Simmons The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets. Wayne Dyer It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it. George Murphy
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the

first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. Ted Shackelford Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. Andrew Jackson So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole. Trent Dilfer My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. Edward Gibbon Reason is the enemy of faith. Martin Luther When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. Willie Mays Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth. Phaedrus
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the

Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles. Warren Giles The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot. Marshawn Lynch Food is important for me, but as a restaurant group, to expand, you know, we have to look where the best market are - where the best markets are. Jean-Georges Vongerichten Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.' Peter Diamandis I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight. Britt Daniel I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that. Adrian Tomine I love to give. I've been a giver all my life. Tyler Perry I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube. Peter Capaldi
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good

thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob. Salvador Dali I was not put on this earth to listen to meat! Dana Snyder Never wait for trouble. Chuck Yeager I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked. Jimi Hendrix Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish. Charles Caleb Colton For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. Samuel Butler They took away time, and they gave us the clock. Abdullah Ibrahim
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I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize

about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else. Sigourney Weaver The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business. Joe Nichols I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. Anton Seidl We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to b...
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Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay

marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off. Gail Collins I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.' Michelle Forbes Ultimately as a leader, you're evaluated on how you interact with people. If you do it well, you develop a reputation as effective leader. If you don't, you develop a reputation for being a highly ineffective leader. Douglas Conant 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. ...
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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I

know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. John Henry Newman The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality. Theodor Adorno Why do I have to be an example for your kid? You be an example for your own kid. Bob Gibson Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either. Jim Sullivan Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of. Ivan Allen Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. Arthur Levitt
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To me, integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate

consequences. It means being righteous from the very depth of our soul, not only in our actions but, more importantly, in our thoughts and in our hearts. Joseph B. Wirthlin Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is. Patricia Heaton I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible. Josh Pais Listen, I believe I should be winning Sport Personality of the Year because if it's about sporting achievements and it's about personality, then I'm a winner hands down. Tyson Fury I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House....
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