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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of

parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. Louisa May Alcott No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard. Robert Frost It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion. Joseph Goebbels Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin. Muammar al-Gaddafi What force is more potent than love? Igor Stravinsky Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. Robertson Davies First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible.

I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be. Lisa Marie Presley And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems. Brian Moore Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Lao Tzu Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. William Shakespeare You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Mitch Albom True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation. Sun Myung Moon Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN.

I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about. David Cross Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. Soren Kierkegaard Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Ernest Renan There are charms made only for distant admiration. Samuel Johnson I certainly believe that improving our intelligence is of important national interest. Jeff Sessions There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. Donald Justice No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart. Friedrich Schiller

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing.

Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly. Alva Noto A merry heart doeth good like medicine. King Solomon Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. Charles Dickens The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come. Joseph Chamberlain Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. John Keats Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo

that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them. Audrey Tautou Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. Ben Jonson The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. Peter Mandelson We are African in origin and American in birth. Timothy Thomas Fortune Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. Lord Byron You had to make an appointment to see her. But it was just a crazy spectacle, people filing past. Eddie Campbell And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. Peter Davison

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not

so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. Robert Adamson I've been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. Richard Simmons I like to sing very much. Della Reese Sinn Fein is the fastest growing party on the island of Ireland. Martin McGuinness But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. John Dryden It is not a woman I want - it is all women. Henri Barbusse These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur. James Van Allen

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library

open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. Joseph Howe Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. George Colman The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. Robert Browning From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it. Bette Davis I always say that you should remake flops, not hits. Richard Benjamin I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise. Joe E. Lewis

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we

did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble. Steve Forbes I usually have 10 different animation projects going at a time. Tara Strong Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford I liked being in the spotlight. Scott Caan Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. Friedrich Schiller Give it up for Ray Charles and his beautiful legacy. And thank you, Ray Charles, for living. Jamie Foxx To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. Jerry Springer

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish

player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players. LeBron James When they boo you, you know they mean you. George Halas A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. Andy Goldsworthy How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? Vincent Van Gogh It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment. Glynis Johns Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field. Red Grooms

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they

list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Adam Ferguson Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. Ernest Mandel I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am. Tom Hopkins Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Pope John XXIII In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. Michael J. Fox Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world. Berkeley Breathed Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. Jonathan Larson

I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life,

and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.' Fantasia Barrino Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead. Louise Brooks The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. Oswald Chambers My to-do list is so long that it doesn't have an end; it has an event horizon. Craig Bruce Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work. James Lee Burke Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. Juvenal Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. Margaret Oliphant

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo

our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there. Mike Schmidt Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. Erica Jong Good leaders must first become good servants. Robert K. Greenleaf Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. Sitting Bull What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. Gustave Flaubert Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. Abraham Joshua Heschel The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win. Phil Mickelson

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our

own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities. Ben Nelson The greatest power is often simple patience. E. Joseph Cossman Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Andre Breton When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. Nancy Friday Every band needs it's own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist. Tony Wilson I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off. Charlie Haden I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. Astrid Lindgren

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy

the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. Andreas Capellanus Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. Carl Sandburg Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby. Jack Scalia Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. Thomas Bailey Aldrich Men are much more agressive with their advances. Dave Navarro One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Margaret Mead A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it. Katharine Whitehorn

So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a

regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops. Ed Smith Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away. Donna Douglas The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation. Tom Tancredo One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. Francoise Sagan Sammy and I got together and it was like we hadn't missed a beat. Alex Van Halen I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6. John Legend So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis. Daniel Johns

For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the

whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Tim Matheson I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest. Andrew Wiles We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves. Blaise Pascal If I had been in the gallery, I'd have gone home. Johnny Miller Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt. Amy Alcott We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace. Black Kettle

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having

fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken. Gabrielle Union We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to. Hanoi Hannah I was a full foot taller than any child my age. Kristen Johnston Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win. Amy Alcott Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. Golda Meir There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. Princess Diana Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it. George Santayana

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We

love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. Philip Pullman Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Yes, romance has found it's way into my heart in the past. Michelle Trachtenberg Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context. Cat Stevens We all have our own closets to come out of. Judith Light I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing. Thomas Jane I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. Phyllis Diller

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are

parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha I can speak Esperanto like a native. Spike Milligan The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. Robert Englund I think if I were to go back on stage I might be in great danger of acting. Ben Kingsley How can you think and hit at the same time? Yogi Berra No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne. Frankie Avalon

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in

the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics. Bob Lilly Communism is like one big phone company. Lenny Bruce The manager of a team is like a stagecoach, he can't move unless he has the horses. Pete Rose My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life. Frederick Wiseman When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested. Richard Marx If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you! Matthew Simpson It's the most unglamourous glamour business in the world. Minnie Pearl

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out

of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. May Sarton Expenditures rise to meet income. C. Northcote Parkinson There's so many wonderful gospel people out there, and I don't necessarily want to compete with those people. Smokey Robinson War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller We all need each other. Leo Buscaglia We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality. Bryan Singer Freedom is from within. Frank Lloyd Wright

The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a

working actor, and the good part of it... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad. Scott Foley Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it. Olivia Newton-John People die from typewriters falling on their heads. Jonathan Davis Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. Harry S Truman Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent. Ralph Peters

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer

book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years. Aaron Neville Prayer begins where human capacity ends. Marian Anderson Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. Marlo Thomas It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. Arthur Schopenhauer Use, do not abuse... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Voltaire We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that. Mike Johanns When you are young your imagination is so clear. Nina Blackwood

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a

question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial. Kenneth Edmonds The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. Thomas A. Edison I learn something every time I go into the mountains. Michael Kennedy America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success. Sigmund Freud Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Monica Edwards Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality. John Tyler Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton

Michael Sanchez and I grew up in New Jersey, not far from here, playing soccer

together. When I was in high school, I worked to start an organization to help senior citizens, which I learned a great deal from. Andrew Shue The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment. Chris Hedges He played football too long without a helmet. Jerome Cavanagh Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. Josh Billings Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all. Andre Breton Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it. Donald E. Westlake

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he

brought me up. I don't agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn't do it either. Madonna Ciccone The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics. William Odom The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild. Wilkie Collins The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. Ken Blanchard I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington. John Podhoretz There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times. Voltaire

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I

possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile. Reba McEntire Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. Henry Ward Beecher It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. Pamela Anderson Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world. Silvio Berlusconi He who does not tire, tires adversity. Martin Farquhar Tupper I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know? Nick Lachey Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde

I have followed holiness, I have taught truth, and I have been most in the

main things; not that I thought the things concerning our times little, but that I thought none could do anything to purpose in God's great and public matters, till they were right in their conditions. Donald Cargill We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests. Gerhard Schroder If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. Ludwig Wittgenstein It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace. Brent Scowcroft Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. Alan Autry Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. Steve Mann A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan will be remembered for leading the United States during a time of tremendous

international transition - the demise of the Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall coming down, and the end of the Cold War. Mary Landrieu In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Sleep is a reward for some, a punishment for others. For all, it is a sanction. Comte de Lautreamont Music is the key to the female heart. Johann G. Seume Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul. Suzanne Fields What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. Robert Wyatt To be, or not to be, that is the question. William Shakespeare

People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What

it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit. Michael Scott Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Horace Mann If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. Mahatma Gandhi I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. Robert Wyatt To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass. Amiri Baraka Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur. Kenneth Koch I'll always be Number 1 to myself. Moses Malone

In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really

doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. Dave Holland Everyone deserves music. Michael Franti The right man is the one who seizes the moment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system. Aileen Wuornos Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. Huey Long He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society. Joe Biden

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and

that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile. Roma Downey Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs. Wellington Mara Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep. Abu Bakr On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. Lou Holtz If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest. Kin Hubbard It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. Philip Sidney

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to

be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. John McCain If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. Teresa Heinz I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal. Carl Wilson It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. Alan Perlis We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting. Rupert Grint

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere

appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress. Michelle Rodriguez When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. Keith Jarrett For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Karl Marx If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. Carl Hubbell Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace. Eddie Bernice Johnson

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to

be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear and hope are alike underneath. Richard Ford I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do. Sandra Oh But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. Jeffery Deaver To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James A. Baldwin Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Mahatma Gandhi

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel

that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that. Sonny Rollins Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. Imelda Marcos I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. Peter Mandelson There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. Benito Mussolini Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing. Kathleen Hanna

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but

others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. Roger Mahony Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. Francis J. Grimke We do not want riches, we want peace and love. Red Cloud The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. Harry Bridges We lived and breathed acting. David Naughton

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing.

No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever. Sam J. Jones No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Citium Zeno Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band. Joel Madden Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. Mikhail Khodorkovsky To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. Mikheil Saakashvili I shave without using shaving cream. Jerry Stiller

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that

are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! Calista Flockhart I'm dying always. Jessye Norman During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. Calamity Jane Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith For me, poetry is always a search for order. Elizabeth Jennings I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. Jimi Hendrix Saints need sinners. Alan Watts

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just,

I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. Sigourney Weaver Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking! Patricia Sun There is always room for coincidence. Alva Noto The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. Bill Veeck I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it! Sam Ervin I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. Izabella Scorupco Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the

sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. Joshua Chamberlain This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. Rodney Dangerfield I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. Bill Joy The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. Leo Durocher I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. Suzanne Farrell

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and

not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Lucius Annaeus Seneca In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. Michael Parkinson Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. Jonathan Coe Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. John Portman Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover. Fran Drescher People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. Blaise Pascal

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and

then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. John Abercrombie If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. Billy Graham People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided. James Daly I support all Australian films. Yahoo Serious Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Diogenes I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with. Frank Tashlin All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai E. Stevenson

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general

have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them. John Walker Lindh He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. Colin Greenwood Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. Jean de La Fontaine I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world. Natan Sharansky There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Frederick Delius There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Rex Stout

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from

being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. Marya Mannes I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. Gerald R. Ford So use your own property as not to injure that of another. Edward Coke I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. Virginia Madsen Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. St. Jerome I think we were always humble. Steve Brown

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can

get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. William Lyon Phelps Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body. Garry Moore Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. Wendell Phillips It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. Johnny Knoxville The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. Bob Etheridge The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. Samuel P. Huntington Knight without fear and without reproach. Richard Harris Barham

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