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St. Peter announced the glad tidings of the Gospel to the people on the day

of Pentecost, and converted, by the first Christian sermon, ever preached, three thousand - which formed the primitive Church. John Strachan There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. Nathaniel Branden I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing. Tina Fey I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. Virgil Thomson I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed. Jack Bowman We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. Marianne W

Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment

which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner. David Tudor The numbers may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician. James C. Maxwell My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him. Dick Armey The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues. Paul Gillmor Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do. Marc Maron The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1,

1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later. Corrine Brown Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment. Philip K. Dick Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. Frank Herbert I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. Tabare Vazquez Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. Taye Diggs No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtu

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play

a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. Christiane Amanpour There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. Eric San Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. Maxwell Maltz He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr. Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does. Alan Bates Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. Euripides When you step back and watch peo

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all

the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight. Glenn Miller That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes! Randy West While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. Andrea Dworkin Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts. Henri Frederic Amiel Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. Horatio Nelson While we read history we make history. George William

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be

pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit. Juliette Lewis While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for. Robert Teeter I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world. Ryan Gosling I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece. Vince Clarke My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Keith Haring The money was good whi

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same

sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad. Paul Reubens Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time. Rosie Perez I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough. Sunny Murray If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart. Ian Mckellen My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'. Alicia Silverstone If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate,

but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues. Huston Smith It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill. Jim Bunning If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. Jim Walsh I got a phone call saying we are from the News of the World, and we're exposing you a

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution

or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation. John Adams Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established. George Carlin I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value. Guido van Rossum San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening. Gavin Newsom We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. George Eliot Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going. Dennis Moore My life.

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I

wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. James Laughlin The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. Tony Robbins I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well. David Hyde Pierce We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did. Daryl Gates The written tone and the spoken tone change and the reporters' disbelief in the veracity of the government spreads to the readers and the viewers. Roger Mudd I think that I

I have thought about Happy Days made into a movie. As far as the original

cast not being a part of it, wow, I don't know who could be who! I just don't see it going in that direction. I can see the original cast doing the movie very easily though. Erin Moran But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. Alanis Morissette The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Milton Friedman As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. Georges Bizet You don't even have to win a championship every year to draw the fans. You just have to show you're really trying. Tom Hicks I'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs. Jeff Daniels All

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has

in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment. Walter Gilbert If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that. Al Michaels The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. John B. S. Haldane The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. Wynton Marsalis It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. Billie Jean King If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who d

It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because

he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life. Pamela Anderson I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. Alfred Hitchcock When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it. Andre Benjamin I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America! Utada Hikaru It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time. Anjelica Huston It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've

I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody

who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap. Victoria Pratt I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year. Harold Ford, Jr. The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. Saint Ignatius There is too much illustrating of the news these days. I look at many editorial cartoons and I don't know what the cartoonists are saying or how they feel about a certain issue. Paul Conrad People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Alice Walker There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. Aldous Hux

A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite,

in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract. Joseph Lancaster Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. Mohamed ElBaradei Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. Hugh Mackay You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. George Woodcock One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion. Max Weber Just go out there and do what you have to do. Martina Navratilova

In 1969, at the age of 19, I was lucky enough to work with George

C. Scott in the definitive portrayal of his career over a period of many months and several countries on the definitive film version of Patton's WWII career. Edward Albert One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge. David Crane The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. Chris Cannon The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. Roy Jenkins A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. Isoroku Yamam

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my

mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly. Larisa Oleynik Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. W. Clement Stone It makes sense for people who are good at fighting to go out and do it-because if they're good at it, that means the fewest number of other people die. Mercedes Lackey No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do. John Deacon Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out! Jennifer Tilly To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies,

too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. Donna Mills When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. Robert Wyatt This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to. Matt LeBlanc I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago. Tom Ridge Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. Albert Einstein Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be fre

The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right

fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters. Rachel Blanchard I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay. Claudia Black Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. Bear Bryant Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? William Gibson I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. Robert Wyatt Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big

guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Luc Besson I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game. Tom Bergeron An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show her ankles to to get that job? Tina Fey Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. Virginia Woolf To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity. Irving Wallace I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob. William F. Buckley, Jr. There is no

This is our lance. See, you're making me laugh about this now, because there have

been a few jokes on the set about what they actually look like. But, see, I personally think they'd be a great toy. So... just batteries aren't included. Kevin Sorbo Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business. John Moody An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members. Friedrich List As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I'm not simply taking dictation. Richard Russo Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better rema

I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee,

who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber. Gerard Butler As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada. Kenny Guinn Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. Walt Disney It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow. Jonathan Davis I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding. Richard King I want to be remembered as one of the best record producers of my era. Jan Berry I see a lot of patterns in

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love

what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Oliver Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did. John Templeton If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. Wilhelm von Humboldt Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. Steven Pinker I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting. James Stewart It hasn't been a totally smooth road, but in the whole span of things I feel like a very lu

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where

they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets. Maynard James Keenan Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? Thomas Jefferson If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving. Robert Frost One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. Edward Albee The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other c

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each

other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project. William Kempe Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven. T. E. Lawrence At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory. John Strachan I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. Tom Cole Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in the wild. Norm Dicks I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy p

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but

keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John. Noel Gallagher There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me. Lusia Strus I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given. Chuck Tanner Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. Bruce Barton I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. Jim Bakker I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to -

in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman. Alanis Morissette Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. John Kenneth Galbraith For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future. Francois Jacob Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. Robert Cormier Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things. Dogen A round man cann

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out

what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut! Sean Patrick Thomas Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of. Gareth Gates I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off. Mike Thompson The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church. Richard G. Scott I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down r

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories

have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. Haruki Murakami Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy. Corazon Aquino In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends. Dirk Kempthorne No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Noah Webster Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble. Chuck Schumer I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and i

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal

shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums. Jason Newsted By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands. Johann Gottlieb Fichte Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress. Daniel Ellsberg I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes. Terri Windling Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minu

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now

take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom. Jim DeMint I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now. Jimmy Carl Black When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language. James Earl Jones I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system. Jerry Brown Acting allows me to explore new worlds, to discover characters by delving into their lives, and ultimately to become someone else entirely. Pierce Brosnan Why do

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own

rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it. Bai Ling I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well. Leo Kottke My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Aaron Carter True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. Bryant H. McGill Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Frank Muir Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine,

We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we

periodically consider. and I think that may be something we do in the future, but I must say that there is no commitment to that at the present time in any form or size. David Milne The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. Thomas Merton When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory. Rufus Jones It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know? Jack Osbourne I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. Lynn Abbey Religion is excellent stuff for keepi

To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to

those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling; it requires that the speaker should expect a response. Roland Allen I'm a hopeless romantic. It's disgusting. It really is. I've seen 'While You Were Sleeping', like, twenty times, and I still believe in the whole Prince Charming thing. Jennifer Love Hewitt It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. Ezra Stiles Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. Louis Nizer Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible. Jalal Talabani You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from def

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it

was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues. Paula Danziger The hardest part of it was really being away from my family - I have two small children. Last year I took over 20 business trips, so being away from them was hard. James Daly Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. Tony Blair They put their feelers out for all the names and then they'll cast you up to the point a name steps up, and then it doesn't matter how much they love you, there's a certain marketing value on that name, and there you go. Josh Holloway When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity. Reggie Jackson It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know. Pete Townsh

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person

can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength. Elisabeth Shue If part of the purpose of making an album is to get some radio play, then you might as well think about that. But that's not really how we picked the songs. Mike Gordon I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid. Andrew Shue With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet. Leonardo DiCaprio It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. Blaise Pascal I believe a man is better anchored who has a belief in

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm

and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. Jose Marti People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets. Ed Markey All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. Thomas Wolfe Right now, I'm worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, 'Uncle Sam, I'm going to pay you 25 grand a month.' Robert Blake Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy. Lady Randolph Churchill It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly

Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but

had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true. Charles Vest Obviously dunking on Horace Grant and Michael, in those circumstances, is just an incredible thing to happen. I'm happy I was able to make that play, and I'm fortunate I was in that position where I could make that happen for my team. John Starks Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. Frank Lampard I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2. Ned Beatty Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country. Jay Rockefeller I guess God made

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I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand

all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element. Eric Davis My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin. Page McConnell I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Gloria Gaither You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services. Gijs de Vries A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues. Otis Rush I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. Brenda Blethyn The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. Dou

Comedies are just never that expensive quite frankly. They really aren't. We aren't doing green

screen shooting, so even Hangover II in Bangkok might seem like it's expensive, you're flying over and back, but they're just not that expensive to make when you do it the way we do it which is very focused and I've done it before. Todd Phillips In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. E. O. Wilson This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. Sitting Bull I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road. Lee Ann Womack I have to convince myself I know what I'm doing. Joe Namath I was an expert horseman. Harry Carey, Jr. Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. Aldo Leopold I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out. Jack LaLanne Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me. Woody Harrelson Any

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy

about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires. Kevin DeYoung I pay attention to how every makeup artist does everything. Gigi Hadid I had a brilliant trip to Mexico with my friend Ellie during my gap year. We thought we were being really cool and going off the beaten track while all our friends went to Thailand and Australia. The first beachside bar we walked into - there were two girls from my sixth form in there. Emily Berrington There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it. Peter Abrahams I've realized that the most important thing I can do to look good is just treat myself well, whether it's getting a nice, long massage or just lying low and not going out every single night. Kim Cattrall Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are hu

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual

they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that. William Greider Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal. Thomas Bulfinch When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going. Reed Hundt There are a lot of stars I've worked with - big stars - who, when they walk on set, the energy just changes. Kathleen Robertson I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords. David Edwards When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I j

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties

without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws. Ellen Key I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere. Gina Bellman I work in fantasy all day, so when I go home, I want to touch reality. Johnny Galecki Tea makes everything better. Bindi Irwin In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind. Jim Rash There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS. Anthony Fauci I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination. Elizabeth Wurtzel It was weird that most people knew me as someone let go from 'SNL.' I had the best time there, and in retrospect, it was the perfe

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on

with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain. Charlie Sheen I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alternative spaces, museums, and so forth that I visit regularly. That's the closest thing I have to a strategy: I go to a lot of places, many that artists don't visit. Jerry Saltz I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues. Len G. Murray I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.' Feist Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their ti

By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of

the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement. Ralph H. Baer Keep the faith; work hard: practice does make you perfect. Do what you can, and meet the right people to make it work. Christina Milian Many people don't understand ring control. They think they do until they're against someone who really understands how to set traps, how to create holes in the octagon that they fall into. Conor McGregor I assisted on a lot of films outside my dad's company. I only did two of his films. Arjun Kapoor A tapper sticks to existing routines. Whereas hoofing... a hoofer pushes the art form. Savion Glover You don't want to hear about how much money I donate to the Boys and Girls Clubs of America or to AIDS awareness or to give out scholarships. You don't want to hear about that. Allen Iverson Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas For me, r

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a

new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life. Jeremy Renner You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase. Bill Goldberg If you're lucky enough to be raised in a rich family, good. But learn how to respect that luck. It's not a given, you know? It's not like, 'Well, it's normal'. No, it's not normal. It's lucky. Christopher Lambert I eat many different ice creams. I'm not an ice cream snob, although I do think Ben & Jerry's is the best. But I'm happy to eat anybody's ice cream, really. As long as it's good. Jerry Greenfield My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the

way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama. Ali MacGraw Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt. Shel Silverstein If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. Tim Vine You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf The greater the effort, the greater the glory. Pierre Corneille Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously. Alex Trebek The only person I've had sex with on Jersey Shore is my boyfriend. Nicole Polizzi I was not a very fearful kid, really. Clive Owen I do not like violence. Abdurrahman Wahid My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created. Dita Von Teese

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is

just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. Deepak Chopra It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies. Jon Landau I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced. Sting After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. Claire Forlani I'm an exhibitionist, I was an exhibitionist as a kid. Dave Van Ronk There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July. Dan Harmon You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs. Rita Ora You're either living or you're dead. Lil Wayne Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. Stuart Chase I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. Kate Mosse