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Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids

and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream. Billy Bob Thornton Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. Robert Byrd My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'. Charles Barkley Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Marshall McLuhan When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Marcus Aurelius We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers. Emmeline Pankhurst We've written something like 900 songs in all. Barry Mann

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that

are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents. Ginny Brown-Waite Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. Ellen Key I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it. Marilyn Hacker You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. Robertson Davies It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy. Dan Miller The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. Robert Emmet

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm

gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible. Josh Groban Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While' Angie Stone The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Jane Byrne All is lost save honor. Francis I Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. Roy Barnes There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. Ted Knight It's sad that we have become so accustomed to bad service that we're shocked when we get good service. Neil Cavuto

A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to

be seen, is because they're just saying 'No. they're not casting non-white.' You're lumped into a category with people who are just not white. Sandra Oh I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach. Bill Condon To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. Nicolas Cage To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most. Miguel de Unamuno As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over. Barry Gibb I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. Aulus Gellius That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and

do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. Marilyn Manson I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition. Samuel Pepys I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. Thomas Jefferson If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. William James Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it. Frances McDormand

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement

on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. Robert Teeter If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble. Wyndham Lewis Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities. Michael McKean I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes. Ally Sheedy I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. Thomas Jefferson To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong

in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that. Alija Izetbegovic A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions. Henry Kissinger Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement. Theodore Roosevelt Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. e. e. cummings And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. Homer The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. George Santayana

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind

of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again. Alexa Vega A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living. Rudolf Steiner If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either. Georg Henrik von Wright We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. Eden Ahbez I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage. Keith Jarrett An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. Adlai E. Stevenson Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. Cynthia Weil

Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to

make it work better. And I love that it's like theater, too, and the audience, and it's so short. It's only 20 minutes. It's like a haiku or something. Joan Cusack I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947. George Shearing If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. Heinz Guderian To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James A. Baldwin Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. Bernard Meltzer Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself. Luc de Clapiers

For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis

the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor. Albert Claude I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love. Michelle Trachtenberg The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies. Richard Perle Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place. Margaret Haddix I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way. Marilyn Hacker Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed. William James Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. George Crumb

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to

believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. Ivan Illich The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship. Matt Dillon Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction. Steven Soderbergh I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful. Mike Gordon I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Barbara Kruger I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. Tori Amos The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her. William Morris Hunt

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who

detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! Luigi Pirandello I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments. Roger Mahony To forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson An intellectual hatred is the worst. William Butler Yeats Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. Owen Feltham The first requisite for immortality is death. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to

the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses. Mario Cuomo My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. Jonathan Coe When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women! Rachel Bilson If you aren't rich you should always look useful. Louis-Ferdinand Celine You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created. Albert Einstein There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. Margaret Thatcher A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. Harry Emerson Fosdick

Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to

the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful. Bill Frist Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes. Richard Russo George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression. Martin Sheen Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven. Matthew Simpson Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. William Temple I don't like to play the victim. Barry Pepper Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced. Fred Brooks

I think in part the reason is that seeing an economy that is, in

many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. Joseph Stiglitz When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement. Tom Osborne Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Thomas Carlyle Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. Pablo Picasso It's strategic for us - lots of people will develop applications in .NET. Miguel de Icaza It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics. Susan George We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership. David Vitter

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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...