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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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Web searching and cellphone use both flourish in the wee hours. Before the dawn of

the web, I would stay up watching television. But there is something soporific about television: I would often nod off. Not so when I'm online. As technologies expand, these problems may only worsen. Sendhil Mullainathan To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness. Steven Rodney McQueen There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. Elliott...

IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place

for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. Ginni Rometty I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin! Steven Cojocaru I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. Eric Davis If it's time to party, it's time for hip hop. I love Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye. If I'm chilling at home though, I'm listening to Massive Attack, Thievery Corporation, Radiohead, DJ Shadow. I also listen to a lot of classical. Alexis Knapp Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of...

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because

I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. Katy Perry I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences. Kim Kardashian Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of. Sebastian Coe As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included. Wietse Venema I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Tim Tebow Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams. Donovan Bailey All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. Theodore Dalrymple You should put time...

My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent

returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam. Mitchell Zuckoff In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. Ma Jian In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy. Dana Rohrabacher I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns. Flavor Flav Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because leotards ...

I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some

point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life. Clay Aiken I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible. Hayden Panettiere Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Jose Saramago You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great. Jamie Foxx According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the...

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how',

while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information. Man Ray Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it. Sophia Loren What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' Steve Ballmer He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. Abu Bakr There is too little courtship in the world. Vernon Lee The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. Voltaire If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. Sam Rayburn

My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a

fling with some other guy who was my dad. Some dude who didn't stick around too long who Mom was happy to get rid of. She chose Homer, and Homer chose me, so he lent me his name even though I didn't have his blood. Beth Ditto We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear. Elias Hicks We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art. Charlie Sheen There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. Jonathan Safran Foer I'm sort of an old man, a...

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same

time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy. Fabiola Gianotti Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march. Howard Schultz With the variety of fields within economics, broadly conceived and the increasing specialization of scholarly world, the award of a Nobel Memorial Prize honors not only the individual scholar but, implicitly, also a special field or a distinctive method. Simon Kuznets I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary. Xavier Dolan Pakistan is rich in sporting talent, but the only thing needed is to have sincere and honest administrators who should be held accountable by the government. Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a...

I think I always resented the fact that people thought I was trying to entertain

them with my multifaceted, chameleonlike character changes. Although I liked doing that, I wasn't out to fool people and say 'Guess which one is me.' Cindy Sherman 'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness. Rob Sheffield Listen, I am such a nerd. I'm not one of those girls that goes, 'Ha, ha, hee, hee. I'm a nerd.' No, no, no - my brain mentality is the same as a 12-year-old little boy. The video games that I play, the things that I like to watch - I'm a Trekkie. Mila Kunis What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit? Joan Blades For us, as ...

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves

to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. John Kenneth Galbraith When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about. Fantasia Barrino The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. Jamie Lee Curtis Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model. Treat Williams I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw