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Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the

Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration. Richard V. Allen In Germany I am not so famous. Hans Berger Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? Lord Byron A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. Bob Hope How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven. Spike Milligan The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that. Buck Owens It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. Josh Billings

My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious

one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. Frank Miller On the professional side, those 18 years on the farm instilled my love for agriculture. Mike Johanns I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now. Larisa Oleynik Ability without honor is useless. Marcus Tullius Cicero Violence is not funny. William Friedkin The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. Addison Mizner Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. H. G. Wells

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken

it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist. James Ellroy The whole world has changed after September 11th. Jerry Bruckheimer A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. Francis Picabia I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. Sparky Anderson A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance. Stanislaw Lem Strangers he gulls, but friends make fun of him. Phaedrus I will do everything I can to bring the Number One to Ferrari. The whole team and all the fans deserve it. Michael Schumacher

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing

ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. Nomar Garciaparra Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. H. L. Mencken The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. Sidney Altman Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it. Ric Ocasek If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search. John Templeton There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Napoleon Hill It's so much better to desire than to have. Anouk Aimee

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I

feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life. Tobey Maguire Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality. Victoria Jackson Optimism is the opium of the people. Milan Kundera In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. David Mamet When I go out to eat, it's usually something moderate in style. Thomas Keller Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe. Goran Persson Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later. Flora Lewis

This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is

the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters. Richard Roxburgh I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee. Joe DiMaggio I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead. Cesar Romero Washington has been ignoring this issue for too long. Major Owens Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. D. H. Lawrence Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen. Ted Allen

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and

women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. Major Owens We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together. Debra Wilson One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from. Johnny Rivers Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself. Paul Bryant Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. Tom Cruise

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the

BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas. Joey Ramone I do get a lot of requests for specific things. Michael Winslow It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me. Taye Diggs A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. Michelangelo A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. Wallace Stegner Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Marianne Williamson Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. John Acton

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great

bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is. Al Unser Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world. Garet Garrett I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny. Rupert Grint I think that The Eye is a particularly Americanized take on horror. Guillermo del Toro I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids. Dorothy Malone I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind. Thomas Jefferson Never underestimate the value of cold cash. Gregory Nunn

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my

imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have. Michel Gondry Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting. Yogi Berra The triumph can't be had without the struggle. Wilma Rudolph Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything. Bruce Davison I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady. Jackie Kennedy Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson In like a dimwit, out like a light. Walt Kelly

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his

intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. Leslie Stephen But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style. Moira Kelly I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled. Janice Dickinson There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Joshua Reynolds Some couples go over their budgets very carefully every month. Others just go over them. Katherine Mansfield Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. John Gray Politics is largely a matter of heart. R. A. Butler

Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so

on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s. Mitch Kapor I find the medicine worse than the malady. John Fletcher Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton I think like a detective. Laurell K. Hamilton Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad A word once uttered can never be recalled. Horace I'm as thick as a plank. Princess Diana

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not

succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. Donald Knuth Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed? Victoria Wood Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. Christina Rossetti For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. Margaret Cho Every shot that kills ricochets. Gilbert Parker The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. Claudio Monteverdi

You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in

Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq. Bill Nelson We have to worry about protecting the Constitution. Karen Hughes It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know. Craig Bruce For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. Thomas Jefferson Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth. J. Carter Brown Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries. John Cameron

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher,

I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats. Joe Davis Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw Simplicity is a state of mind. Charles Wagner When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. Mae West If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world? Richard M. Nixon If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that. John Lurie Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers

because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. Emeril Lagasse America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created. Jennifer Esposito The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you. Steve Nash The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. Frederick William Faber Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. Jim Sensenbrenner

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where

it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. Alice Meynell We need to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. Charlie Dent I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes. John Abizaid I've been drinking and using since I was 13. Jack Osbourne I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much. Brett Somers We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. Billy Sunday

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and

boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities. Frank Gaffney If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. Fran Drescher Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air. Kevin J. Anderson I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. Bette Midler Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right. Mel Ott I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated. John Shirley I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government. Edward Norton

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid

advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. John Desmond Bernal Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow. Don Herold Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. Vince Lombardi As governor, I learned the importance of having an agenda. John Engler I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. Amy Sedaris All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting

topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. Suzanne Vega 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. Michel de Montaigne No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. Joyce Brothers You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Napoleon Bonaparte Philosophy is the product of wonder. Alfred North Whitehead To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. Edward M. Purcell I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge. Stuart Pearce

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was

playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time. Ray Brown In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against. Frank Oz We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. Letitia Elizabeth Landon To survive, men and business and corporations must serve. John Henry Patterson Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. W. H. Murray I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats.

You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips. Ann Coulter My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. Liev Schreiber Who will not suffer labor in this world, let him not be born. John Florio We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart. Wynonna Judd It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton A usurper always distrusts the whole world. Vittorio Alfieri The U.N. can meet and discuss, but we don't need their permission. Andrew Card

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be

able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks. Michael D. Barnes The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. Claude Levi-Strauss If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it. J. P. Morgan The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it. Jacques Yves Cousteau The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve. Marcia Gay Harden The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going. Phil Crosby

I think a lot of people have a misconception of what the kitchen is about,

but you know the grueling part of it is also the pleasure of it. That's why I think you have to have a certain mentality to understand what that is and be able to handle it. Todd English Great acts are made up of small deeds. Lao Tzu How blessings brighten as they take their flight. Edward Young Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. Jean de La Fontaine What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. Oscar Levant I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. Erma Bombeck Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll

put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. David Fincher All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book. David Livingstone Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. Joseph Wood Krutch My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor. Sally Kirkland Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained. Stendhal I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy. Robert B. Laughlin Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. Edward Gibbon

An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do

with it, having no right to meddle with another man's property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his. Daniel Morgan If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. Isaac Asimov It was an argument of rare power and eloquence. William Henry Moody Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't have any tricky plays, I'd rather have tricky players. Abe Lemons To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. Paul Twitchell I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo. Peter Steele

There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the

world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent. John Raleigh Mott Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. Edsger Dijkstra An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. Henry Wotton Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here. Latrell Sprewell Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. Leonardo da Vinci The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. Arthur Schopenhauer

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and

you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet. Roy Horn I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace. Frank B. Kellogg Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. Andy Warhol I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there. Josh Holloway The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world. Friedrich Schiller I am not bound to please thee with my answer. William Shakespeare

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their

duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably. Carl Levin I'm really excited that I'm able to work again. David Gest The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music. Barry Gibb We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary. Trevor Phillips You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning. Barbara Sher Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better. Bill Bradley The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment. Ednita Nazario

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him,

so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero That incident ruined my reputation for 10 years. Get one Beatle drunk and look what happens! Harry Nilsson We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years. Daisy Berkowitz In my beginning is my end. T. S. Eliot I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. Pauline Hanson I am pleased that Prince Charles and Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles have decided to take this important step. Rowan Williams We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN. Nat Friedman

We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering,

not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. Jose Marti I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media. David Brock To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded. David M. Shoup I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life. Geoffrey Rush The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity. Amy Grant I didn't get paid. I didn't even care that I didn't get paid. Ray Conniff It's not just being called to the ministry that counts. James Green Somerville

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly

overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq. Carl Levin There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. Mark Twain Depression is the inability to construct a future. Rollo May Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond. Thomas Love Peacock I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different. Glenn Hoddle Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four. Chris Rock Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow? Albert Einstein

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