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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs

to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence. Stephen Hadley Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story. Tommy Bond We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. Louis Aragon Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away. Hayden Fry I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. John Keats Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain. Jeffrey Sachs It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover. Joe Cocker

This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason.

All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. Larry Elder I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead. Frank Black You and I will meet again, When we're least expecting it, One day in some far off place, I will recognize your face, I won't say goodbye my friend, For you and I will meet again. Tom Petty We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. J. William Fulbright Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such fr...

Urban Outfitters - I love it. It's almost like Forever 21, but for, like, the

24- to 25-year-old girl, getting a little bit older. Keke Palmer I'm the kind of person that believes that I would like to be evaluated by my entire career and my entire life, not two words that I would misspeak and then later apologize for. Kirk Cameron I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses. Leonard Susskind Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Joshua Roman Space X's Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars with modules where earthlings can live. My teleporting technology is the number one way those individuals will get new information, new treatments of diseases that will occur on the planet, and new food sources. Craig Venter Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introdu...

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short

of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing. Mikaela Shiffrin The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do. Geoff Johns Not to be weirdly glib, but as a reporter, you should be honest all the time. Sarah Koenig There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better. Ashton Kutcher My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences. De...

In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be

to adjust the images. And it'll be to change the color of an actor's tie or change the little smirky thing he's doing with his mouth. Or you can put in more clouds or move the tree a little bit. Robert Zemeckis There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. Jill Scott I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please. Jane Fonda For over a year I continued to submit mss, and have them rejected - the last few with rejection letters indicated the story was pretty good, but I was American. Nora Roberts Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I...

If we lived in a time where people couldn't watch 'Lost' on Hulu or record

it on their DVR, we wouldn't necessarily have succeeded. We need people to be able to catch up. Now you choose when you watch TV. We wouldn't have survived in the old days because people would have missed episodes. Carlton Cuse In science, if you don't do it, somebody else will. Whereas in art, if Beethoven didn't compose the 'Ninth Symphony,' no one else before or after is going to compose the 'Ninth Symphony' that he composed; no one else is going to paint 'Starry Night' by van Gogh. Neil deGrasse Tyson I would like to be known as one of the best actors in the world because that is something that I would have earned. And being sexiest would come from my genes... it is something I was born with and not earned it for myself. Randeep Hooda Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry. John Van...

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive

public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. Sonia Sotomayor I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me. Anita Brookner I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean itself. Aaron Peirsol I got married at a very young age, and of course, for all the wrong reasons, and ended up divorced and lost everything. It was a very difficult time in my life. Willie Aames We have 11 great potato flavors, and customers have been clamoring for tortilla. For over a year, we worked to develop the four flavors of tortilla popchips: chili limon, nacho cheese, ranch and salsa. They're made with traditional stoneground masa, are gluten-free, and have less than half the fat of other chips. Keith Belling I never won anything by myself. I was always strong because of help that gave me extra strength to win. Dan Gable There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also i...

In '87, I was about 9 years old, and so at that point I was

wearing, like, fluorescent green T-shirts and acid-wash jeans and leg warmers, and my hair was in a ponytail with a scrunchie and I had the teased bangs that were up in a rainbow shape. It was crazy. Malin Akerman We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. Joni Mitchell The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. Stewart Udall I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death. Ahmed Ben Bel...

If you don't have the confidence in baking, commit to making the recipe three times.

The first two, do it exactly the way I've told you to make it. Twice. The first time you'll screw it up. The second time it will come out pretty good, and then the third time, make your adjustments. Tom Douglas People feel repressed by their own governments; they feel unfairly treated by the outside world; they wake up in the morning, and who do they see - they see people being shot and killed: all Muslims from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Darfur. Mohamed ElBaradei Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show. Reshma Shetty In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu In every single culture I encoun...

In LA I was watching At the Movies with Ebert and Roper, it was, nice

to see them differentiate between the subject matter and the art form of making the film, and they both gave it thumbs up, and I was kind of pleased at their honesty as far as reviewers go. Michael Berryman So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen. Amy Klobuchar I'm a real person, and I'm angry. I'm trying to use this celebrity thing to get people some help. AIDS, poverty, racism - I want to be one of the hands that helps stop all that. I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll charge it to my account. Jamie Foxx People from major labels were afraid to go to Black Flag gigs throughout most of the band's existence. They treated our gigs as something threatening. I'm sure that it probably was. They probably had reasons to be scared. Greg Ginn I don't ...