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We are in control, they are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that

by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. Julien Green Everybody writes a book too many. Mordecai Richler The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. Woodrow Wilson I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far. Kelly Hu It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. Aristotle But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience. Harold Budd

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it

right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to. Jane Elliot There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. Donald G. Mitchell We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. Ezra Stiles An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce Will it, and set to work briskly. Friedrich Schiller God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies. Jean Anouilh If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out. Rabindranath Tagore

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy

to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. Samuel Johnson You can't find the sound if you just love sleep. Dennis Brown It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. Jane Austen Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. Erich Fromm Language is the dress of thought. Samuel Johnson This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently. Ruggero Leoncavallo It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Robert Musil

So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to

handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back. Sean William Scott In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever. Yitzhak Shamir God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. Leo Strauss My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it. Rob Simmons I find directing more satisfying. Michael Shanks It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it. Zac Hanson I don't think anybody who looks carefully at us thinks that we are a left-wing or a right-wing organization. Peter Jennings

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go,

you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else? Jena Malone No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began. Black Kettle To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. Benjamin Disraeli Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. Samuel Johnson The easiest person to deceive is one's self. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because

distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen. Tim Roth We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up. Jack Nance Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. Wayne Dyer It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me. Steve Carlton If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil. Joseph de Maistre We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. Nicolaus Copernicus In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures. Carl Wilson

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and

just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. Earl Weaver I love room service! Cindy Margolis It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. Arnold H. Glasow The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. Mick Taylor According as the man is, so must you humour him. Jean Racine We boil at different degrees. Clint Eastwood

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I

would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic. Lance Burton All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with. Stanley Crouch Inaction is perhaps the greatest mistake of all. Chuck Schumer One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. James Earl Jones Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself. Jessye Norman If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell? Douglas Horton Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention. Simone Weil

I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as

possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups. Laisenia Qarase Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. Mahatma Gandhi I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big. Maynard James Keenan All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. Cyril Connolly Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. Edward Gibbon I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun. Roland Barthes True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. Auguste Rodin

If we're going to create the best business climate to create higher paying jobs and

retain our young people, we're going to have to build a workforce prepared for the opportunities of the future. John Hoeven The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar. Andy Summers We're like Iraq. We're hiding missiles. We've got two missiles in reserve. Jayson Williams Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point. Randy Quaid I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting. Anna Kournikova The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. Ethel Barrymore It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does. Daniel Keys Moran

Next it was found that it was physiologically and structurally the same in the plant,

that it was the living part of the plant, that which manifested the life and did the work in vegetable as well as in animal organisms. Asa Gray We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. Bette Davis I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead. Maynard James Keenan World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. Ken Livingstone The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. Dawn Fraser Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. Arnold Schwarzenegger I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment. Angie Stone

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it

is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. Richard Hofstadter The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. Edward Tufte By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. Democritus In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. Bela Lugosi People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. E. W. Howe I did one year at NYU, and I'd love to go back there someday. Alexis Bledel America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus. Chuck Schumer

I made a lot of different experiments with tapes at that time, until I finally

realized around 1995, that sound is an interesting subject for me. Ever since then sound got more and more integrated into my art works, musically as well as physically. Alva Noto On the night before we were married, all of the anxiety in the world came down upon me. John C. Hawkes If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? Steven Wright But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear. Gavin Newsom Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. Margaret Mead Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled. Israel Zangwill When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. Eric Hoffer

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and

my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing. George Shearing For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever. Joan D. Vinge I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Charles Dickens A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment. Carl Jung I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three. Casey Stengel Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it. Michael Davis The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general

wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute. Rebecca Harding Davis I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Steven Wright My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. Beau Bridges I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty. Phaedrus If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. Ben Affleck Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people. Stella Blum

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the

Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. Georg Solti There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. Calvin Coolidge Like timidity, bravery is also contagious. Munshi Premchand I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. Stephen Lewis All I wanted was to be a university teacher. Jalal Talabani Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. Mahatma Gandhi There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work. Charles E. Wilson

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first

adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. Robert Reed I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. Philip Levine But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now. Ruth Brown The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. Julian Lincoln Simon Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. Francis Quarles Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple. Keith Jarrett Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. William Law

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to

be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business. Sammy Sosa When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Bernard Meltzer People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it. Dana Plato Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. Jan Peter Balkenende If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry. John Phillips To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. Euripides I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. Bob Dylan

Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to

do good. You have to force your will upon someone, but dancing you don't have to force your will. It should be a lot easier because if I make a mistake I don't get hit. Evander Holyfield No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. A. J. P. Taylor Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others. Livy As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. John Langdon It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. William Ellery Channing There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both. Charlie Bell That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Lynn Abbey

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation

with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community. Larry Harvey Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. J. P. Donleavy No one can give you better advice than yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. Rudolf Nureyev Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of. Charles de Lint

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs,

and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. Jared Diamond Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. John Tillotson There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness. Nigella Lawson Becoming an Olympian is the ultimate reward for any athlete. Michael Diamond It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate. Lou Diamond Phillips Information about the package is as important as the package itself. Frederick W. Smith I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on. George Clooney

I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana,

it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned. Clayton Moore There is no one who would have me - I can't cook. Greta Garbo The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three. Heraclitus No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living. James Cash Penney Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars. Rupert Murdoch The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time. Dana Snyder Fear God and work hard. David Livingstone

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up

with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. Jack Bowman One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. Lew Wallace For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them. Robert B. Parker South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government. Laura Ingraham I'm in the position to pick the cream of the crop. Graeme Murphy Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex. Bill Maher That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary. Piers Anthony

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction

are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. Samuel Smiles Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. Margaret Lee Runbeck Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. Aphra Behn When they hear from you, it counts. That's how we're going to win. Charlie Norwood The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances E. Willard Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. Sydney Smith

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by

a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. Major Taylor And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living. Martin Landau I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. Marcel Duchamp The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God. John W. Foster He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue. Andrew Lang I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. Lyndon B. Johnson If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct. Leo Fender

My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you

learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it! Jeffrey Tambor Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. Kenneth L. Pike I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. Suzanne Farrell Some things are impossible. Alex Van Halen I'm a lifer, yeah... I can honestly say I'm a lifer. Neil Finn There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand. Charles Kettering That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg. Samuel Goldwyn

Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being

about how the world registers and processes information. Certainly that's what sex is about; that's what history is about. Seth Lloyd I'm in this business because I despise honest labor. Marty Robbins The passions are the only orators which always persuade. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimately futile. Pope John Paul II I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style. Michael McKean Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. Horace A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages. John Yoo

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which

protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. John B. Hood My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning. Dakota Fanning One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. E. B. White America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. Ringo Starr It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. John F. Kennedy Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind. Robert Fisk I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me. Aaron Neville

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm

very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team. Bram Cohen There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. Indira Gandhi Conquerors never, never conquer a nation to bring freedom. They brought control. Ernst Zundel The American boy starts swinging the bat about as soon as he can lift one. Tris Speaker Seeing through is rarely seeing into. Elizabeth Bibesco The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. Hannah Arendt Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society. Judith Light

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have

learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. Hugh Mackay A really good detective never gets married. Raymond Chandler Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old. Erma Bombeck Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license. Will Wright I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest. George Murphy Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. May Sarton

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life.

He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. Martin Lawrence The bottom line of Hollywood is money. Victoria Jackson In fair weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. Albert Einstein Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. Antonin Artaud Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee. George Herbert We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence. John Spratt

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very

different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context. Troy Perry I do here speak it before the court. I look that the Lord should deliver me by his providence. Anne Hutchinson I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. Nina Simone What was the competition? Well, I remember this Puerto Rican who came out in a short skirt and a gun. Sarah Vaughan He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone. Abu Bakr Poverty is from the devil and that God wants all Christians prosperous. Benny Hinn We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. Shirin Ebadi

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are

talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. Jimmy Carter In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. Jean Cocteau I would love it if you would come in and teach me how to really do you. Maya Rudolph There are companies that are cutting their costs by over 50% by offshoring. Sanjay Kumar Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich. Olga Korbut I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. Emeril Lagasse

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover.

Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. Mark Udall I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student. James Galway The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation. Albert Schweitzer The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. Arthur Wellesley If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down. Michael Andretti I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. Barry Mann

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the

earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. Nicolaus Copernicus I'm the glue that holds everything together. Otis Williams Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon To have a great idea, have a lot of them. Thomas A. Edison We face neither East nor West: we face forward. Kwame Nkrumah I've got a lot of crazy plans. Henry Thomas

Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we

all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing. Joshua Leonard Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things. Lucius Annaeus Seneca We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life. John Eaton I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that. Scarlett Johansson If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. Sue Grafton Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. E. F. Schumacher I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg. Tre Cool

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain

which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance. Joseph de Maistre My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home. Smokey Robinson Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep. Denis Waitley I'd love to retouch my whole life. Dusty Springfield If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won. Joichi Ito The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice. Francois de La Rochefoucauld We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. Graham Greene

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They

want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous. Judd Gregg I don't think there is one cause of Gulf War illness. Christopher Shays The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. Sam Rayburn I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. Richard Linklater No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. Christopher Morley Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done. Earl Wilson Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. William Randolph Hearst

I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit

the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were. Robert Englund Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. Andre Maurois I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. Peter Straub Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals. Jim Rohn If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it. Sue Johanson The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. Albert Einstein The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. George Orwell

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard

is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing. Peter Banks A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Benjamin Disraeli No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling. Ralph Nader There is a set of rules and a code of conduct that I believe that you should adhere to in life. Stuart Pearce Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. Hannah More When we are not sure, we are alive. Graham Greene To eat is to appropriate by destruction. Jean-Paul Sartre

It is not advantageous for Russia in its present state to fight against Chechnya. The

army is a mess. It must be made combat ready. That will take time. Russia has a lot of economic, social and political problems much more important than Chechnya. Aslan Maskhadov Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments. Anne Grant Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. John Donne There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy. E. V. Lucas There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. Jean Racine I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book. Connie Willis Nature is under control but not disturbed. Beatrix of the Netherlands

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue

to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. Michael N. Castle My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible. George Armstrong Custer I wasn't really living anywhere... I was just kinda hanging out. I would live from week to week in places. Bob Livingston If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you. Thomas Friedman Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community. Alan Autry The noble man is only God's image. Ludwig Tieck Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired. Mae West

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today.

They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that. Debbie Allen At Johnny's suggestion I pursued a career in radio that eventually brought me to Los Angeles. Randy West I believe in love that's fun, that is caring, giving, and that is honest. Jordan Knight Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Edwin Land Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. Billy Bob Thornton

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding

to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. D. H. Lawrence The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. Alfred North Whitehead There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire. Murray Walker It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. George S. Patton I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage. Micky Dolenz It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. Edmund Burke They had absolutely no sexual interest in me. Betty Hill

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but

a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology. Alfred Loisy I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida. Daisy Berkowitz No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. George Eliot But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. Andrew Wiles Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Oliver Goldsmith I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. Grover Cleveland

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect

freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results. George Pierce Baker I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. Tom Stoppard Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. Douglas MacArthur Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. Walter Smith Great writers are the saints for the godless. Anita Brookner The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting. Jessamyn West The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven. Neale Donald Walsch

I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world,

but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important. Tom Hanks We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act. Debra Wilson Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. Johnny Carson Stupidity fuses notoriety and celebrity. Suzanne Fields Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. Nikolai Gogol The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood. Edwin Markham

Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one

pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially. Dana Plato I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all. Patti LaBelle Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. Woodrow Wilson Food is our common ground, a universal experience. James Beard Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. Benjamin Disraeli I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did. Eddie Floyd Love dies only when growth stops. Pearl S. Buck

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see. Kelly Lynch I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. James H. Douglas, Jr. I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Tennessee Williams I looked up and saw the shape of a heart made by the silhouette of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon kissing. Sarah Silverman The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. Bill Cosby

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence

than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity. James F. Cooper I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race. Honore de Balzac Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. Claude M. Bristol You really have to listen to yourself and know if what someone is saying is true for you. Judith Light No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately. James E. Rogers Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them. Richard L. Evans Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. Blaise Pascal

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic

movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important. Tony Goldwyn You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same. Mary Schmich In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. Virgil Thomson You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. Nikolai Gogol I don't think you'll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road. Buddy Rice I like Beethoven, especially the poems. Ringo Starr Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. Leon Trotsky

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior

as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. E. O. Wilson Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? George Edward Woodberry Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. Jalal Talabani People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so. Sharon Stone Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. Henrik Ibsen There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard. James Caan I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats. Jerry Nachman

You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing

you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with. Markus Wolf Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. H. L. Mencken The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. Ovid I have no inflated ideas about success anyway. Trevor Dunn

As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a

mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building. Jane Byrne Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. Tom Hayden You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive. Margaret Thatcher The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. Billy Higgins I know that money speaks more loudly than need. Knute Nelson My father felt that children should make their own way. Ron Reagan Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. Ronald Reagan

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I

was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company. Jay-Z Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism. Sidney Blumenthal A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker. Andrew Bernstein The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus. John Piper There's no hate lost between us. Thomas Middleton The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. Ovid The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather

The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is

this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. George Leigh Mallory If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'. John Lennon Enhancing revenues will help us improve education and solve our infrastructure problems. Roy Barnes Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill Adam was a super-being when God created him. Benny Hinn I can't remember ever being told how to ride. Gordon Richards The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its

growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. Josh Billings Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. James Bryant Conant My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. T. S. Eliot It was never really my choice to be an action heroine. Izabella Scorupco Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. Theodore Roosevelt I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain. Elizabeth Moon A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something

because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. Peter Straub I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again. Wislawa Szymborska It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. James H. Boren To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will. Sugar Ray Robinson Inspiration comes of working every day. Charles Baudelaire I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past. John Maynard Keynes The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service. Arthur Hugh Clough

If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try

holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing. Hayley Mills Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. John Kenneth Galbraith Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell All the other chiefs and tribes have accepted the Great Law of Peace. They now live in peace with one another. Hiawatha Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. Marcus Aurelius Some things have to be believed to be seen. Ralph Hodgson I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. Ernst Fischer

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period

of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results? Ted Engstrom Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind. Earl Nightingale Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. Andre Gide I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different. Mike Pence I went back to film work after Dobie. I went back to film work after Dobie. Dwayne Hickman My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra. Angie Dickinson

The president feels not only do we need to change these rogue regimes, but even

our friendly allies, who really basically have, sort of, benign dictatorships, need to get with the program if they want to have long-term security and prosperity from terrorism. Mitch McConnell I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there. Steven Wright The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool. Anatole France There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. Don Marquis To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. Henry Ward Beecher When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed. Paul Klee I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies. Rahm Emanuel

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want

without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. Natan Sharansky Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still. Charles Edison A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. James A. Baldwin Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. Claude Levi-Strauss I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom. Michael Bergin Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy. Mikheil Saakashvili Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. Samuel Johnson

If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out

the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results. Walter Lang There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. James Russell Lowell It was very constraining, much more than I ever would have thought, to run for governor. Christine Gregoire There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be. Doris Lessing Was Islam spread by them through force and coercion? No. They preached Islam by personal example. Pervez Musharraf What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable. Sam Francis That was the best ice cream soda I ever tasted. Lou Costello

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing

him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about. Michael Scheuer We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many. Larry Page I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues. Clayton Christensen The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. Wendell Phillips To be social is to be forgiving. Robert Frost Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. Jacob Bronowski

It's very questionable, and we will pursue every factor, every element, every second of the

timeline, of the final hours of Maurice's life. We will pursue that relentlessly. That will be our quest from now on. Barry Gibb A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly. Elizabeth Gaskell Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done. George Bernard Shaw Celebrities say the darnedest things. Bridgette Wilson I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life. Ted Lange If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full. Dave Mustaine The greatest hockey player who ever lived: Bobby Orr, and I love him. Donald Stewart Cherry

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children

of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes. Laurell K. Hamilton Oh, what a void there is in things. Persius It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films. Bill Forsyth It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent. Dave Eggers Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated. Alphonse de Lamartine Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. Bill Cosby

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate

together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. Milton Friedman I have never felt bereft of anything. Ben Kingsley Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. Frank Lloyd Wright The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair. Daniel Keys Moran 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. Lord Byron I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action. Morris Chestnut

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern

inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world. Henry A. Wallace Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket. Douglas Horton I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough. Isaac Rosenberg I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. Stephen Fry I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause. Jonathan Edwards The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. Jacques Yves Cousteau What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. Terence

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find,

remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up. Joichi Ito Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Iris Murdoch I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice. Amy Irving The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. Richard Rolle

We are so appreciative of the men and women in uniform who are protecting us,

whether in Afghanistan or Iraq or on ships around the world. For our security, they are taking the offensive to the terrorists overseas. George Allen I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am. Alice James Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain. Peter Mandelson A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. Thomas Carlyle I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. John Oldham In order to do something you must be something. James Stockdale

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much

of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money. Anthony Minghella There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. Eric Hoffer I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. Publilius Syrus War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Thomas Chandler Haliburton I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. Bob Dylan The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace. Silvia Cartwright

Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded

of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. Mary Wesley Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not. Brent Scowcroft The taxpayers deserve accountability. Byron Dorgan You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice. Billy Higgins Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament. Paul de Man We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader. John Griffin Carlisle

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express

or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built. Frank Lloyd Wright The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Lionel Trilling Every human being makes mistakes. Ian Smith Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight. Daniel Drew I'd like to be the ambassador to the Bahamas. Eleanor Mondale Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Herbert Spencer

I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting

and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people. Brittany Murphy Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead. James Thurber We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. Walter Gilbert You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it. Don King I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working. Ashton Kutcher I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress. Cameron Diaz The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Friedrich Schiller

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being

content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. Gilbert K. Chesterton It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest. Lindsay Wagner The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. Pierre de Coubertin Quit worrying about your health. It will go away. Robert Orben If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emile M. Cioran I was the good Bond girl, but I wanted to have the dresses and the high heels. I wanted the funky, sexy name. Izabella Scorupco They only babble who practise not reflection. Edward Young

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate

of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. Richard Lugar Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Arthur Wellesley I love turning my daughter on to old movies. Susie Bright Concealed talent brings no reputation. Desiderius Erasmus I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. Jimmy Stewart Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music. Herbie Hancock Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. Peter Mandelson

More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our

stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart. Lee Scott Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out. Christopher Reeve Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? James M. Barrie We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. Michel de Montaigne At this level, you put a lot of pressure on yourself as a player to perform and do well. Mats Sundin Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly. Otto Rank

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically

one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings. Chuck Close Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' Alfred Schnittke I like to make everything my friends are involved in a little better. I should have just become a manager. Drea De Matteo I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. Warren Buffett Power has no limits. Tiberius Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have. Jean-Paul Sartre

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In

these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people. Jacques Chirac I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life. Ike Turner I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook. Benny Hinn Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun. Jean Genet Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. Aristotle I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed. Patti Page A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such

huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes. Herb Alpert A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains. Ernest Hello I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others. Bernard Ebbers My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X Men pretend they don't like to be nagged, but they love it, really. It makes them feel wanted. Denise Van Outen Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. Euripides

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of

some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. Benjamin Disraeli The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. W. Somerset Maugham I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. Taliesin Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest. Charles de Saint-Évremond You name the demonstration; I was at it. Susie Bright You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. Donald Kagan I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. Clint Eastwood

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force

you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses. Alfred P. Sloan You begin by always expecting good things to happen. Tom Hopkins Who says soul has only one colour? Joss Stone Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. Robert Green Ingersoll The golden age is before us, not behind us. Simon the Zealot Most Texans think Hanukkah is some sort of duck call. Richard Lewis It's not about working anymore, its about doing work I can be proud of. Paul Walker

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry

about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now. Chris Isaak If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. Mary Frances Berry At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas. Julie Bishop We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. Alex Comfort Every man makes a god of his own desire. Virgil When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing. Gerry Cooney Down time is not the name of the game. Usher

As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as

much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years. James Ellroy A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people. Sun Ra It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. Rebecca Harding Davis Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. D. H. Lawrence Every hero becomes a bore at last. Ralph Waldo Emerson Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. Tryon Edwards Women are nothing but machines for producing children. Napoleon Bonaparte

I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for

discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations, notably in the countries of South East Europe, because we are well familiar with this country's track record of religious tolerance. Georgi Parvanov An army marches on its stomach. Napoleon Bonaparte It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have. Mick Taylor What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects. Jerry Bruckheimer The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Winston Churchill To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Lewis B. Smedes To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Albert Camus

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against

getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. Dee Brown A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. Thomas Beecham When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more. Michael Andretti The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love. Don Rose It pulled me like a magnet, jazz did, because it was a way that I could express myself. Herbie Hancock If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people. Craig Bruce Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling. Carlos Santana

Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of

professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them. Randy West Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again. Harold E. Hughes The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga. Jaime Hernandez Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults? Marilyn Manson I've never really been the type of person who worries much about what people think of me. Stephen Baldwin Politics is the science of urgencies. Theodore Parker See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too. Linus Torvalds

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of

family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it. Haniel Long An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence. Honore de Balzac Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people. Graham Chapman Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. Ralph Waldo Emerson I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better. Josh Lucas A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style. Al Hirt I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. Edward Heath

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men

who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. Gilbert Parker I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal. Kenneth Koch But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people. Maynard James Keenan The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises. Jason Statham Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead. Jackie Chan You may have the universe if I may have Italy. Giuseppe Verdi The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is

not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments. Jeffrey Sachs I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it. Ray Bradbury If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point? Vanessa Marcil Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest. Chen Shui-bian More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World. Fidel Castro I can be glib and truthful all at once. Richard Russo If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius

We need to make sure parents and coaches are aware of the dangers an on

the look-out for the warning signs. Performance enhancing drugs are too damaging to young people for parents and coaches to not be involved. Chuck Grassley I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it. Debbie Harry Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf I do suspect that this world is hell. Francesca da Rimini And what is the greatest number? Number one. David Hume And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me? Mark McKinney

Let me share some facts with you about the law in most of our country.

California is in many ways a little different from the rest of the world, and California has better gun laws than many states, although California's need to be improved. Michael D. Barnes When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out. Alanis Morissette My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride. Aaron Neville I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all. Queen Victoria Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. Samuel Johnson You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife. Tony Blair Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. Pindar

A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay

tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted. Richard Kern Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward. William Wilberforce Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier? Linda Fiorentino The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me. Wayne Gretzky Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Joseph Addison It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind. Linda Blair I put my heart in my work. Hanoi Hannah

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know

only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal. Alice Munro Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. John McCarthy We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things. Friedrich August von Hayek I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. Edward Bellamy As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it. Corazon Aquino I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God. Wynonna Judd Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean. Deborah Bull

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great

stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. Gerald R. Ford Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer I've always wanted to be a professional golfer and I'm glad that came true. Karrie Webb I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here. Charles King Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. Carolyn Gold Heilbrun Beauty is whatever gives joy. Edna St. Vincent Millay I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Michael Dorn

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through

the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. Robert Musil Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together. Napoleon Hill Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. Jane Austen I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president. Howard Dean The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. Leontyne Price Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing

papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories. Kevin J. Anderson We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia. Alija Izetbegovic Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. Jonathan Swift Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future. John Galliano The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adams I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. Yogi Berra

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain

mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough. Chuck Schumer Where there are many counsellors there is safety. Edward Coke All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. Richard Stallman Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car. Mary Wesley The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. Wilkie Collins But primitive man had enemies real as well as imaginary, and they were not subject to priestly sorceries. Paul Harris

The more people told me that, you know, wow, you should be so blessed. Don't

you feel blessed? And you have all this - mansion and all these beautiful things. And I said, you know - the more they told me that, the more depressed I got. Tanya Tucker The passion for destruction is also a creative passion. Mikhail Bakunin A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. Maurice Maeterlinck Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side. Douglas Haig No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Mario Vargas Llosa Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. Budd Schulberg

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause

than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps, and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to understand what one is drawing. Henry Moore A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. Frank Lloyd Wright But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. Jonathan Coe I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want. Paul Weller Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. George Herbert My use of the medium - photography - is in some ways traditional. Andres Serrano

Like anything, you don't force kids to cook. It just becomes part of life -

have them be around it, keep them informed - talk about it. I try to relay my passion for it in these ways. The second you try to force anything on your own kid, they rebel. Todd English Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. William Temple I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in . David Niven Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. Carl Levin In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are. Ovid It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine Give us enough but with a sparing hand. Edmund Waller

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form,

but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. George Crook Australia is the most isolated continent. Jared Diamond A great man is always willing to be little. Ralph Waldo Emerson Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. John D. Rockefeller Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge. Richard E. Grant As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. Benjamin Disraeli No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. Kin Hubbard

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's

nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized. Wayne Dyer The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come. Sister Parish I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. Beau Bridges That which concerns everyone must also be discussed and approved by everyone. Guy Verhofstadt Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. Denis Waitley In America, all things are possible. Mel Martinez I like the noise of democracy. James Buchanan

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace

the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father. Lizzie Andrew Borden They do not know very good Latin, these botanists. Albert Hofmann It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did. Mike Pence Our fans make the band. What they give we give right back. They're an integral part of us. They ARE us. Jonathan Davis The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us. David Amram If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary. Larry Dixon

The commerce of India does not grow, nor does that of Portugal, or of Turkey;

that but that of the protected countries does increase, as has been shown in the case of Spain, and can now be shown in that of Germany. Henry Charles Carey There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. Fiorello LaGuardia I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place. Terri Windling One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Nietzsche The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Douglas William Jerrold And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. Dennis Banks Proper names are rigid designators. Saul Kripke

The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts

that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states. Omar Bongo If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Anne Bradstreet Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. Katharine Hepburn Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. Leonardo da Vinci The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai E. Stevenson Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? Ray Kroc I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people. Sydney Pollack

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be

like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.' Michael Bay Half a truth is better than no politics. Gilbert K. Chesterton Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. Robert South Arguments are healthy. They clear the air. John Deacon The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. Percy Bysshe Shelley I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could. Francois Rabelais Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body. Jim Goad

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he

take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I can live with myself. Linda Tripp I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. Caitlyn Jenner Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic. Edward de Bono The American people do not begrudge anyone his or her power until they start abusing it. Chris Bell When affection only speaks, truth is not always there. Thomas Middleton My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. Mary Harris Jones

I enjoy playing clubs. I still enjoy the closeness of the nightclub venue. However, after

a certain period of time and after playing around some of the clubs in New YorkI felt that jazz should be presented in a more prestigious atmosphere. Sonny Rollins Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock. Mike Huckabee Never judge a work of art by its defects. Washington Allston True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing I begin by considering an effect. Maurice Ravel The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red. Andy Goldsworthy

I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with

falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement. Nana Visitor I am in the prime of my senility. Joel Chandler Harris My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash. Rick Allen Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media. Jane D. Hull I've done gospel singing. I have a gospel album and country album. Donna Douglas All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. Eddie Bernice Johnson You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile. Christopher Reeve

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they

can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration. Burt Rutan The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein Conservation of energy also protects our environment. Lamar S. Smith Birth was the death of him. Samuel Beckett A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. Cy Young True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily. Jennifer Aniston Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn

The newer homes did not sustain as much damage because they were built to better

safety codes; they were better designed, higher wind loads for the roof. All of those facets made those homes sustain the storm a whole lot better. Ginny Brown-Waite Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. Kenneth L. Pike I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud. Brian Clough But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood. David Gest Use of the word; the word itself was not printed. Robert Vaughan One must steer, not talk. Lucius Annaeus Seneca I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive. Johnny Carson

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We

know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart A man is sorry to be honest for nothing. Ovid The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do. Lindsay Wagner What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe. Michael Korda If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return. Blanche Lincoln You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Meister Eckhart The whole world is a man's birthplace. Caecilius Statius

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with

a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. Donald Cram Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call. Ronny Cox I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me. Noel Coward A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming. Jane Fonda Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears. Gian Carlo Menotti It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith Martin Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate. Barry Gibb

We were racing at circuits where there were no crash barriers in front of the

pits, and fuel was lying about in churns in the pit lane. A car could easily crash into the pits at any time. It was ridiculous. Jackie Stewart Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. Josiah Gilbert Holland Rock isn't art, it's the way ordinary people talk. Billy Idol When completed, the budget must provide the services we have promised to our constituents. Jane D. Hull At the same time as we clearly condemn actions of violence by groups in Palestinian against Israel. Jane Harman You can't jam change down the American people's throat. Dennis Hastert Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy

in those regions are occurring, and that those in that region are able to pursue it without being stifled by terrorists that are despotic. Judd Gregg The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today. Mackenzie King I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. Richard Thompson The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. Hunter S. Thompson Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand. Craig Bruce Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. Danny Thomas The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea. Navjot Singh Sidhu

I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now.

I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool! David Lynch My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk. John Keats Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? Barbra Streisand I think maybe Mr. Sinise and Mr. Bacon have slightly bigger egos than I do. Eric Roberts If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level. Billy Higgins The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand. Fred Allen I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it. Vince McMahon

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than

a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. George Bernard Shaw The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. Peter Nivio Zarlenga Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life. Tom Ford Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against. Bill Walton You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen. Ashley Smith Because as a youngster I longed to see the Black man free and I longed to see anyone stand up for us. Louis Farrakhan

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not

to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons. Saddam Hussein Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. Henry W. Kendall You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all. Ramana Maharshi Love is a better teacher than duty. Albert Einstein I'm still healthy as can be. Darrell Royal Sex is funny and love is serious. Stephan Jenkins The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. Stendhal

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can

help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. David Price Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. Anton Chekhov The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. Milan Kundera I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. Joey Ramone Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Andy Goldsworthy

This is a very highly charged investigation. People are very interested in this, and we've

got a prosecutor, a very well respected prosecutor who's been looking at this issue, this investigation for a long time. Alberto Gonzales I never told a joke in my life. Andy Kaufman When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' Stephen King This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. Emily Murphy I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology. Lars von Trier I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day. Brande Roderick Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent. Benjamin Disraeli

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our

cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown. Tim Robbins Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel. Marilyn Hacker In waking a tiger, use a long stick. Mao Zedong It's very rare that publications double their frequency. James Daly I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them. Donald Davis No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. Mikhail Baryshnikov Kissing Macaulay Culkin was like kissing a brother. It was really no big deal. Anna Chlumsky

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