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I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to

be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together. John McCain If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. Johnny Carson Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? Friedrich Nietzsche John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil. Teresa Heinz I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal. Carl Wilson It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one. Alan Perlis We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting. Rupert Grint

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere

appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. Isaac Watts I'm a video game fan. I played them before I became an actress. Michelle Rodriguez When you're up against an electric band like that, it's like you're on two separate planets. Keith Jarrett For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him. Karl Marx If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win. Carl Hubbell Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. Francis Bacon Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace. Eddie Bernice Johnson

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to

be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear and hope are alike underneath. Richard Ford I think all women should learn how to strip. It's a really healthy, extremely challenging thing to do. Sandra Oh But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures. Jeffery Deaver To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. James A. Baldwin Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. Mahatma Gandhi

I don't want to appear hostile, like I'm hostile to L.A. or that I feel

that the people don't appreciate jazz. I don't think it's that. I think it's something more. It's something a little bit more complicated than that. Sonny Rollins Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. Imelda Marcos I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one. Peter Mandelson There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. Martin Luther The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. Benito Mussolini Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. Blaise Pascal I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing. Kathleen Hanna

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but

others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. Roger Mahony Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down. Francis J. Grimke We do not want riches, we want peace and love. Red Cloud The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares. Eleanor Roosevelt Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt I'm a machine man, and I head a machine. Harry Bridges We lived and breathed acting. David Naughton

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing.

No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever. Sam J. Jones No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. Citium Zeno Instead of going out and shooting people, why don't you go start a band. Joel Madden Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers. Mikhail Khodorkovsky To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. Morihei Ueshiba Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries. Mikheil Saakashvili I shave without using shaving cream. Jerry Stiller

So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that

are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true! Calista Flockhart I'm dying always. Jessye Norman During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis. Calamity Jane Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Bill Griffith For me, poetry is always a search for order. Elizabeth Jennings I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan. Jimi Hendrix Saints need sinners. Alan Watts

I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just,

I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled. Sigourney Weaver Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking! Patricia Sun There is always room for coincidence. Alva Noto The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. Bill Veeck I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it! Sam Ervin I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. Izabella Scorupco Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith

Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the

sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed. Joshua Chamberlain This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me. Rodney Dangerfield I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. Bill Joy The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson There is no coming to consciousness without pain. Carl Jung I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. Leo Durocher I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. Suzanne Farrell

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and

not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. Charles Darwin Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. Lucius Annaeus Seneca In my view a jazz musician is a great musician. Michael Parkinson Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. Jonathan Coe Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. John Portman Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover. Fran Drescher People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others. Blaise Pascal

Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and

then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that. John Abercrombie If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life. Billy Graham People who say that the Internet is the bubble are incredibly misguided. James Daly I support all Australian films. Yahoo Serious Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Diogenes I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with. Frank Tashlin All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. Adlai E. Stevenson

I lived in a region in the northwestern province - the people there in general

have a great love for the Taliban, so I started to read some of the literature of the scholars and the history of the movement. And my heart became attached to them. John Walker Lindh He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. Colin Greenwood Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. Jean de La Fontaine I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world. Natan Sharansky There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Frederick Delius There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Rex Stout

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from

being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. Marya Mannes I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. Gerald R. Ford So use your own property as not to injure that of another. Edward Coke I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. Virginia Madsen Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. St. Jerome I think we were always humble. Steve Brown

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can

get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible. William Lyon Phelps Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body. Garry Moore Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. Wendell Phillips It's a real primal thing, watching someone get hurt. It's funny and accessible. Johnny Knoxville The federal government has a responsibility to protect all Americans from potential terrorist attack. Bob Etheridge The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries. Samuel P. Huntington Knight without fear and without reproach. Richard Harris Barham

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger

program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth. Albion W. Small Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry. Sally Kirkland There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. Michelangelo Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. George Bernard Shaw I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. William Hazlitt Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Napoleon Hill Sydney is a very good market for us - we have a very strong following here. Graeme Murphy

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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain

in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.' Alan Alda But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic. Paul Bettany If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today. Steven Weber I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. Peter Ustinov I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. Jack Paar Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. Imre Lakatos My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro. Brandi Carlile Every em...

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle,

and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon. Jules Verne What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food. Carla Hall I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out. Justin Vernon The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture. Alvar Aalto I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Renzo Piano ...

My brother was a great audience, and if he liked the picture, he would laugh

and laugh and laugh, and he would want to keep the picture. Making people laugh with an image I had created... what power that was! Lynn Johnston Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for. Charles Jencks I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution. Paul Lynde At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart. Ben E. King The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures. John Woolman My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever. Lee Child My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come...

The central premise behind Oslo was that if Arafat were given enough legitimacy,

territory, weapons and money, he would use his power to fight terror and make peace with Israel. Natan Sharansky The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. Michel de Montaigne You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes. Daniel Clowes In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God. Sun Myung Moon So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.' Tommy Cooper If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there coul...

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the

series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.' Terry Pratchett So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body. Annabelle Selldorf The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community. Julia Ward Howe I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me. Lawrence Welk Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing. Adriana Lima As much as you put into it is as much as you get out of it. Nuno Bettencourt I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big d...

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President

Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things. Ted Olson In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene. Steve Buscemi Thousands across America are glued to their web cast to hear this. And actually, I've never met one human being who said that they had seen one of those. Spencer Abraham When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes! Ken Hensley I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later. Susan George Someti...

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

I just try to keep the same people I've had around me from Day One.

Keep it a real small circle because if you do that, not too much is going to go bad for you. Kevin Love I may not be as visible as I used to be, and by that I mean being in the clubhouse or on the field. But I'm just as invested as I've always been. Billy Beane I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places. Maya Angelou I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future. Luke Mably To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems. John Eccles I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. Rachel Zoe Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to...

I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to

the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day. Ksenia Solo History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from. Jill Lepore Men know something that women don't know. Never ask directions of a stranger. Craig Brown It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.' Susan Barker I think there's a culture in Rajasthan Royals that has been there before I got here, so I've come into it. I've enjoyed being part of it and embraced it. They are quite clear about the fact that bottom lines are important, and there...

The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be

  uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it. Washed Out I would be concerned if one of my children were constantly watching nothing but horror films or indulging in gothic literature without the balance of other types of art and entertainment. I do think that's a danger. Scott Derrickson In recent years, Republicans have argued that Congress is a more responsible policymaker than the executive branch. But when it comes to regulation, Congress is often much worse, and for just one reason: Executive agencies almost always focus on both costs and benefits, and Congress usually doesn't. Cass Sunstein I've done acupuncture, and I believe in it. That's the first place I go if I'm having any particular pain anywhere. Renee Elise Goldsberry People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production. Laura Harrier Confidence and belief in yourself and your vision is absolutely paramount. The fashion industry is tough - be prepared t...