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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But

reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it. Oscar Hammerstein II Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us. Christopher Bond But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security. Asa Hutchinson I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. James Joyce That past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency. Mary McAleese I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself. Dan...

We all join the President in applauding the sacrifices made by our brave men and

women in uniform. But we must continue to provide them the tools they need to accomplish the difficult tasks they face. Dick Durbin Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. Henry S. Haskins Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. George Steiner I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world. Brian Schweitzer Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be. George A. Sheehan Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The busy have no time for tears. Lord Byron

I believe that people who do not vote in this country have no right to

complain about the government that we are now living under. By the same token, if you don't really vote in television, you're never going to have your way. Write a letter to the president of the network. Bill Bixby We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem. Dave Obey There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion. John McDonald I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big. Imran Khan A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson A public office is not a job, it is an opportunity to do something for the public. Franklin Knight Lane Silence is argument carried out by other means. Che Guevara

If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph

nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved. Len Dawson I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I'd get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback. Kevin J. Anderson There are things that Scotsmen get and other people don't get in the dialogue. Scottish characters can be pinpointed by a phrase, targeted very quickly. Bill Forsyth A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. Lyndon B. Johnson All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. Thomas Carlyle What you get is a living, what you give is a life. Lillian Gish For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. George Orwell

The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would

find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes. Emily Mortimer We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. Irving Babbitt Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace. John Tyler The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. Allan Bloom Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed. Jim Caviezel Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. John Fletcher

Session musicians kind of respected me because what I was talking about made sense. That

all came from an education. Believe me, education does you more good. Maybe that's the reason I've been around so long. Bobby Vinton And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! Barbara Bush I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy? Owen Hart There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with. Simon Travaglia Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up. Roger B. Chaffee Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. Lawrence Summers

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than

yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. Phillips Brooks Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk? At least gimme a curtain! Angie Stone The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is. James Daly I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show. Tommy Tune Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category. Theodor Adorno From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet. Jones Very Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do. Josh Billings

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the

problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. John Holt What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? George Orwell We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. Walter Lippmann All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us. Yahoo Serious I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. Orson Welles Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks. Laurell K. Hamilton Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop

What happens often - although I'm not particularly a victim of this sort of thing

- is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the 'net and it becomes currency. And some of them are so bizarre! Robert Palmer To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line. Nelson A. Miles Steve and I saw eye to eye on the story and I got the part, but I think in the beginning it was due to my brother's instigation. So I owe him for that. Beau Bridges I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what you do for a living. Jim Cramer Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. Ed Markey Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. Miguel de Unamuno Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that final...

I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're

so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be? Tony Goldwyn Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves. Peter Lewis Allen But day in and day out, the most stimulating part of the work is being a member of a team of so many very bright, articulate and talented professionals. Randy West Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. Elizabeth Moon I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. Jack Kevorkian I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. Billy Sherwood I've traveled to ...

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else

is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity. Susan Dey Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built. Allen Weinstein The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization. Otto Rank 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force. Algernon Sidney Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. Laurence Sterne Achievement brings its own anticlimax. Maya Angelou Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their childr...

Our cattlemen have given us the safest, most abundant, most affordable beef supply in the

world and I trust their judgment. And if you look at consumer confidence in this country, so does the American public. Norm Coleman When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean. Catherine Zeta-Jones A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. William Kent I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists. Giuseppe Zangara Pain is temporary, film is forever. Michael J. Fox Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back. Don Henley But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. Andrew Marvell

Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they

did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue. Peter Ackroyd New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. Federico Garcia Lorca I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months. Graham Nelson Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for. Viktor E. Frankl There will always be a certain element of extremists on either side, left or right, who no mainstream news outlet is going to satisfy. Jonathan Klein My best friend and I love to make fish faces. Beverley Mitchell I've known attractive airheads, and I've known ugly idiots. Neil Cavuto

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for

national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues. Peter Singer It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. Maggie Smith Whatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change. Mary McAleese I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Teena Marie The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. Publilius Syrus Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens? Alan King Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes. Ken Salazar

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of

the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. David Sanborn People were talking while I was playing, so I got up and left the stage. I've gotten to the point where I'm not really very patient with patrons rapping during the show. And the people were all nice and quiet when I cam back. Bruce Hornsby Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. Graham Chapman Religion has a good place and it has its good people. Garry Marshall Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living. John Agyekum Kufuor The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. Petrarch You try to be moody when you're young and it had a go...

I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've

always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house. Dakota Fanning Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order. Maurice Denis I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. Robert Wyatt The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. Soren Kierkegaard At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about. Janis Ian Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder. Eberhard Arnold

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a

more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour. Colin Baker Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything. Paris Hilton I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. Preston Sturges Therefore, once U.S. forces leave, it is almost inevitable that an anti-Western, anti-U.S. regime will arise. William Odom I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod. Charlotte Bunch Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. Benazir Bhutto Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould,

to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work. Edward Gibbon What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. Hugo Gernsback I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time. Dave Holland For when a child is born the mother also is born again. Gilbert Parker A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal. Abdelaziz Bouteflika It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Sam Levenson I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas. Martha Stewart

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork.

What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. John Berger It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability. Betty Cuthbert The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. Pope John XXIII Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. James Russell Lowell The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. Matthew Henry Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot

What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to

be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. Napoleon Bonaparte To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. Fanny Burney Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight. Aaron Sorkin If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. Shelley Long It's important to e alive in those moment, especially when you're doing something you love to do. Jenifer Lewis We're planning on being married for a long, long time. Nick Lachey

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that

confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion. Ken Starr There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them. Daniel Keys Moran We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold. John Buford Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child. Charles Handy Marriage is the death of hope. Woody Allen Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was. Rebecca Loos

In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are

supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. George Will Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor. Bill Scott You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. Shirley Chisholm Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing. Dick Cavett If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz I feel that my whole life is a contribution. Pete Seeger Then the war became a real problem and along with other shortages, they started to have paper problems. Gil Kane

As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan,

three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us. Peter T. King These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries. Thomas Frank Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. Albert Einstein There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. Mark Rydell Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. Frank Darabont Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. Omar N. Bradley Well, it was alleged that he was...

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started

to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. Gary Allan The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. Tom Allen If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me. Henry Fox Life's more amusing than we thought. Andrew Lang If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. Lawrence G. Lovasik The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. Jeremy Bentham Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. Willem Dafoe

I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you

wash up, you do everything, rather than messing up another room and I pop my typewriter just next to it. So I still write now but I was doing more writing when the children were younger. Buchi Emecheta What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? Michelangelo A kiss, when all is said, what is it? A rosy dot placed on the 'I' in loving; Tis a secret told to the mouth instead of to the ear. Edmond Rostand If ever there was a time for true bipartisanship, it is today. Brad Henry You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. George Burns I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. Buddha Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, und...

It's the board I had a problem with. I could totally handle being in the

water and stuff. I came here to do my own stunts. Water! Ocean! Action! Big waves! That water, that water has tamed me. You can feel that the world is connected to it. Michelle Rodriguez Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. Henri Cartier-Bresson To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. Coventry Patmore As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything. Martin Yan James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally. Brian Austin Green A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opport...

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some

men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. Lyndon B. Johnson Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry. Arthur Levitt An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Joseph Conrad Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course. Julie Nixon Eisenhower In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful. Helena Christensen Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anythi...

When the late Bishop was appointed, about thirty-two years ago, to diffuse the light of

the Gospel through this extensive portion of His Majesty's dominions, it was even a greater spiritual, than a natural wilderness. John Strachan Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. Peter Schuyler We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that. Marcus Aurelius Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Pervez Musharraf A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people. Mary Landrieu I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry. Cat Stevens I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a ...

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