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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a

long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it. Jack Bruce Experimentation is an active science. Claude Bernard It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent. James Marsters The only weights I lift are my dogs. Olivia Newton-John I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. Jim Morrison The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. Bette Davis

The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that,

the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice. Terence Fisher Beware the hobby that eats. Benjamin Franklin The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. Earl Weaver It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. Anatole France The public is never wrong. Adolph Zukor Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion. Loretta Young We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey. John Hope

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff,

he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate. Jay Leno I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done. Nicholas Lea I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK. Mila Kunis People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV? Ric Ocasek Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show. David Selby We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? Wendell Berry Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have

played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. Meg Tilly There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party. John Hall Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I don't listen to much modern composition. Colin Greenwood We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. Christopher Atkins I think I was first to do live performances on a modern electronic sound synthesizer. John Eaton I've never directed, but it must be humbling. Holly Hunter

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to

give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides. Robert Quillen Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose. Alcuin I never say a funny thing intentionally. Jayne Meadows People know they are lacking something, they are constantly wanting some kind of spiritual guidance. Douglas Hurd If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. Oscar Wilde Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent Van Gogh

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good

music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. William Lyon Phelps I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies. Sam Mendes What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country. Joseph Addison No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible. George Chakiris I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels. Sebastian Bach All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. Oscar Wilde A film has its own life and takes its own time. Aaron Eckhart

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all

appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. George Whitefield When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons. Red Barber Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. Walt Whitman Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular. Tom McCall Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that. Holly Valance They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show. Jeremy London Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. Charles Dickens

I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with

a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her. Matthew Perry Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen. Simon Travaglia Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. George Leonard I've been acting for 25 years, living out of suitcases on theater tours or film locations. Alfred Molina One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world. Arthur Henderson Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light. Michael Ondaatje

It is the potential for economic growth that provides the basis for the development of

countries, for bringing to people essential goods and services, such as water to drink and facilities for healthcare. Lee R. Raymond Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. Joseph Stiglitz I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili. Joely Fisher Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense. Phaedrus I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. Ty Cobb We do most of what we do out of our sexual energy and our sexual needs. Frank Langella Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. Will Rogers

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour.

And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down. Chester Brown Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life. Muhammad Ali Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future. Pauline Hanson I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me. William Green Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. Louis Kronenberger Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you. Jill Bennett I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men. Joan Leslie

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if

you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage. Dominic Monaghan I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. Thomas A. Edison You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. William Hazlitt And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut. Janice Dickinson I'm against abortion. Charles Evers Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else. Nicholas Lea

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between

light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning. Conrad Burns I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out. Fritz Hollings Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. John Morley I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do. Angelina Jolie College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families. Barbara Mikulski The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy. Algernon Sidney I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs. Madonna Ciccone

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had

quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock. Chad Smith A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Television speeded everything up. Ruth Handler Leadership demands that we make tough choices. Alan Autry It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish. Stephen Leacock Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. Cokie Roberts I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant. Oscar de la Renta

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to

go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. Edsger Dijkstra Until Genevieve I had tended towards the more dramatic type of role. Dinah Sheridan A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. Eleanor Roosevelt Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting. Jonathan Swift We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Napoleon Bonaparte I always liked spy stories. Walter Wager I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity. Richard Roxburgh

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood

the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity. Jeffrey Sachs Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love? Conrad Veidt Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image. Carrie Underwood We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace. George W. Bush It was a perfect night for a train. The occasional whistle told Louis of all the farewells he had ever known. Charles Tennyson Turner I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery. Joan Rivers A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. Joseph Brodsky

I enjoy getting things done. My philosophy is the edge, the edge of something. There's

where we have to go in local government, in not only the philosophy but the creativity in people around you. They have to go to the edge. Richard M. Daley I don't read fiction at all. Brent Spiner Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. Phillips Brooks The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. Edmund Burke I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends. Karrie Webb If you are not leaning, no one will ever let you down. Robert Anthony The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations. Janet Napolitano

For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the

rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter. Mo Udall The truth can not be drowned by any flood of false indictments. Slobodan Milosevic I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to. Dennis Quaid This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair. Doc Hastings I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating. Sophocles Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. Walt Disney

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible

only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. Andre Gide Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. Huston Smith My parents love each other. They work through their problems. Brian Austin Green The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. Walt Whitman Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor. Catherine Zeta-Jones The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. Maimonides The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are

too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license. John Desmond Bernal Anger is a short madness. Horace I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution. Francis Schaeffer In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Robert Louis Stevenson To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. David Alan Grier I don't persuade to suicide. Jack Kevorkian I am a man of few words, but many riddles. Frank Gorshin

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these

are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness. Jerome Bruner I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend. Pink The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest. Roseanne Barr Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. Herbie Hancock There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson I am in love with Larry David. Kathy Griffin I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin. Ronnie Hawkins

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known

to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold. Howard Lindsay The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark Twain One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg C. Lichtenberg Every crisis offers you extra desired power. William Moulton Marston People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors. John Sweeney I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. Annette Bening

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason,

and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Richard Courant Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. Thomas Kuhn Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well. Amos Bronson Alcott The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. David Hume Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. Sydney J. Harris Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible. Norman Rockwell I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set. David Warner

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems

and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved. Fred F. Fielding I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. Marlene Dietrich Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. Thomas Mann Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Vladimir Lenin There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. Heinrich Mann Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them. Gary Sinise A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. Thomas Sprat

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the

Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King. Sandy Duncan To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time. Evita Peron The wisest of the wise may err. Aeschylus Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Alexander Pope God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies. Mary Harris Jones There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. Logan Pearsall Smith The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia. Jose Carreras

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis

of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. Charles Lawrence Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow My last real race was at the Olympics in Sydney in 2000. Cathy Freeman That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain. Bill Joy The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James A. Baldwin You can't take sides when you know the earth is round. Patricia Sun

The fans in Dallas were hard on me my first year, but after having a

great year last year they are now supporting me. It feels great to have my hard work pay off, especially when the fans made it hard for me. Steve Nash I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn. Juliette Binoche For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet. Jermaine Jackson I have an assistant in Vancouver to help me with my life. Megan Gallagher And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. Mignon McLaughlin Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that

something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. Idries Shah He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first. Voltaire The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. Tom Wolfe Never in the way, and never out of the way. Charles II I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip. Billy Bob Thornton It might be, it could be... it is! A home run! Harry Caray Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' Sandra Bullock

It's not like a corporate job where the more you accumulate on your resume and

the more hours you put in, the higher up you get; it's simply not the case. That being said, if I had known that and known what kind of career I'd get into, I still would have pursued it. Jason Marsden Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. Francis Bacon You can only mend the vase so many times before you have to chuck it away. Christine McVie We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier I enjoy the last quarter of all basketball games. Sarah Silverman The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. William Barclay Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. Jim Morrison

The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is

the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential. Pope Benedict XVI You have to be very careful when you let someone win. James Caan By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung. William Collins The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. Gloria Steinem Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else. Mike Judge A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing. Lawrence Tierney

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques

as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists. Paul Kane Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent. Nicolaus Copernicus An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor. Alan Bates Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress. Wayne Rogers When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project. Vernor Vinge Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. Charles M. Schulz Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. Henry Miller

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up

there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! Harry Hopkins I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. Jonathan Shapiro When a piece is done, I mix it before going on to any other piece. Harold Budd If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it. Charles Kettering Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Edmund Burke There is no bad in good. Douglas Horton It's not rage that drives me, it's competition. Lennox Lewis

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he

did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled. Lloyd Cutler Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it. Al Stewart We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past. Jane Byrne I don't know what drives me, I don't have a clue, but I'm driven more today than I ever have been. Vince McMahon We once did six tours of America in 15 months. John Bonham I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work. Tanya Tucker Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. Meg Greenfield

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are

simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. Huston Smith A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. Thomas Carlyle Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. Leonard Woolf Fools admire, but men of sense approve. Alexander Pope There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. Louis XIV Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. Neil Kinnock If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up. Stevie Nicks

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a

misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. Lord Acton Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Carlin When the game is over it is really just beginning. Jerry Kramer It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. Crystal Gayle Jesus never said anything about homosexuality. Patricia Ireland God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Izaak Walton We want to christen every city that Kris has played in during his professional career. Anna Benson

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American

people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch. George W. Bush I love winners when they cry, losers when they try. Tom T. Hall Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. D. H. Lawrence War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men. Georges Clemenceau You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove. Timothy Leary One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six. Navjot Singh Sidhu There are mighty few people who think what they think they think. Robert Henri

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages

of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Soren Kierkegaard The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground. Harry Hay No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m. Betty Cuthbert Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. Alan Parker I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher. Stephen Lewis The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. Norman Mailer Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. Emile M. Cioran

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need

to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too. Kevin J. Anderson The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S. Peter Camejo I'd like to play every type of character, but only once. I like to expierence things. River Phoenix I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time. Nina Blackwood It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races. Mark Twain Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. Vernon Howard We provide food that customers love, day after day after day. People just want more of it. Ray Kroc

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications

and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. Dorothy Denning Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. Thomas Aquinas Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before. Loren Eiseley Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. Pope John XXIII To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. Samuel Johnson One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on. Aphra Behn History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. Jeff Vandermeer

Vicodin, I got addicted to that little pill. The reason I don't talk about it

too much in the press is because it isn't funny, and I love to be funny in interviews. If you joke about that period in your life, it doesn't seem right. Matthew Perry If you want peace work for justice. Pope Paul VI The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on. Melvil Dewey The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. Edith Sitwell I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church. Andres Serrano Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. Alan King I choose to do unattractive people, because then I can pretend they think they're attractive. Amy Sedaris

Taking Big Bird away from our five year olds, lunch money away from our ten

year olds, job training programs away from our fifteen year olds, and college loans away from our twenty year olds is a disgrace. John Murray I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash. Jason Statham A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. Douglas Dunn I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. John D. Rockefeller In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow. Charles Kettering Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education. Bob Riley This isn't the best town for what we're doing. Too many other things to pull the crowds away. Kenneth Rexroth

The Americans may think they have 'liberated' Baghdad but the tens of thousands of thieves

- they came in families and cruised the city in trucks and cars searching for booty - seem to have a different idea what liberation means. Robert Fisk Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan The worst thing we can do is to do nothing. Brad Henry Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture. Charles Caleb Colton If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation. Peter Akinola People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week. Casey Affleck

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'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the

strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie. Chris Weitz If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it. Martina Navratilova I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night. Rick Danko You sort of have to become what you're wearing. Pharrell Williams I believe in status symbols. Brooks Stevens The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road. Laura Ingalls W...

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to

rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. Chris Hughes At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible. Yannick Noah Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses. Paul Engle Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud. Russell Brand You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims. MC Hammer The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. William Cobbett Men need to live and breathe women. Adam Levine I am a lover ...

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for

every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again. Charles Kelley It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities. David Chipperfield My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. Yelawolf Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. Rob Sheffield To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out. Eliot Spitzer 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time. Obie Trice ...

'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

Westerners know the difference between a talker and the real deal. If Rick Perry wasn't

right to be governor of Texas, why should he be president? Dick Cheney I continued to study Math and Physics on my own, but one and a half years later I realized that I did want to be a composer, and after that I never changed my mind. Gyorgy Ligeti Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism. Dalton McGuinty It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television. John Barrowman Well, television is grueling. The hours are grueling, it's hard work, and there's a lot of pressure to get it done without a lot of rehearsal time. Evan Peters The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed. Jeff Goodell I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress. Marat Safin I try not ...

First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's

a false statistic. There's nobody that is wealthy saying, let's go get the people that aren't. First of all, there's no versus. He's creating a false class warfare in a country where there is no class structure. Jon Lovitz I kind of cherish at least the idea of Midwestern candor and openness. But I couldn't live there. James Polshek There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves. Richard Rorty The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. Thomas Francis Meagher As actors we give so much of ourselves away so I like to keep my personal life to myself. Teresa Palmer If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world. Simon Cowell When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. Bertrand Piccard I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in di...

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence,

its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. Benito Mussolini I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated. Steven Pinker I'm the son of a pediatrician, and I do believe that the most important resource we have is our kids. And I think the most important thing for America's future is to invest more in our children. Ezekiel Emanuel People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then. Michael Hirst Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. James Madison If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell. Carolyn Maloney I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful! Debra Messing I come from a ru...

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

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than

they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. Charles Baudelaire In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh Life is ten percent what happens to yo...

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole.

It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live! James Howard Kunstler I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player. Steve Largent When you're guest-starring on another show, it really requires you to jump through hoops in a way, because you're servicing the stories of the main characters. You have to be able to portray a lot of different elements. You show up and get on board and get on their journey; you have to be flexible as to what they need for the role. Kim Dickens Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes. Denis Leary Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to...