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The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion

of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. Stephen Wolfram McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything. Charles McCabe I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies. Leonardo DiCaprio Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. B. H. Liddell Hart In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin. Elizabeth Hurley So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner. Cliff Richard

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a

bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. Mary Kay Ash When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. Helen Hayes The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. Christopher Lasch Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. E. O. Wilson People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate. Tobey Maguire

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to

set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy. Luis Figo I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium. Bill Wyman I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice. Honor Blackman There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. Gaylord Perry The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. Rem Koolhaas

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and

west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. William Henry Ashley She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. Brian Austin Green A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. Ovid Service is what life is all about. Marian Wright Edelman Canned music is like audible wallpaper. Alistair Cooke Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. Phil Jackson I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing

to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual. Melinda Gates How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. William Gaddis The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Virginia Woolf I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! Omar Bongo Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. R. W. Apple, Jr. I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy. Dwayne Hickman Philosophy is the highest music. Plato

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize,

they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA. Peter Gabriel I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. Jeff Gannon Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child. Zoltan Kodaly As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. Roger de Rabutin Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. Margaret Truman I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid. Samantha Bee I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. James Ellroy

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it

voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out. Timothy Thomas Fortune Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. Pamela Hansford Johnson Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. Dennis Prager The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. D. H. Lawrence Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. Arthur Bloch The mind can also be an erogenous zone. Raquel Welch A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Ludwig Wittgenstein

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are

responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was. A. J. Foyt I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are. Cathy Freeman Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while. Fiona Shaw The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. Queen Elizabeth II When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket. J Allard You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are. Nell Carter

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations...

They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' Peter Drucker We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. Herb Alpert The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. William Hazlitt Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. Jose Marti Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Ralph Marston Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Miguel de Unamuno

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if

he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. Ryan Gosling A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Rudyard Kipling I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow. William Kempe I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. Philip Levine Writing and Painting are the same for me. Peter Malkin One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights. Jay London

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of

the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. Rudolf Otto Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. William Jerome There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. Fiona Shaw Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world. Bill Richardson A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. Vernon Howard Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. Ad Reinhardt If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose

boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. Pete Domenici Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac The Gospel has to be the norm. Hans Kung I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. Peter Arno Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. Thomas Fuller

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented

to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. Isaac Asimov The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. Anthony Braxton I've had the big ups and the big downs. Juice Newton Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. Christina Aguilera The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood.

I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out. Brett Hull I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in. Ray Conniff A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Joyce Cary My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. Mickey Rivers I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. Max Baer Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa. Nina Blackwood

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to

explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. Roland Emmerich Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain. Tina Louise Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. Hector Hugh Munro Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard I manage to hide in my movies. Liev Schreiber Good words cool more than cold water. John Ray I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week. Andrea Jung

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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts

me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen Keller For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. Kim Campbell Nature makes woman to be won and men to win. George William Curtis I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. Frederik Pohl Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Laurie Anderson

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than

they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters. Alice Hamilton What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane? Jackie Kennedy In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. Charles Baudelaire In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. George Canning Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost. Evelyn Waugh Life is ten percent what happens to yo...

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and

still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for. Christopher Dawson Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play? Tom Lehrer This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. Hannah Arendt I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential as human beings and in their public duties. Princess Diana Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach

If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for

every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again. Charles Kelley It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities. David Chipperfield My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears. Yelawolf Rebecca Black might sing like a robot, but that's just proof she has evolved beyond us. Her vocal is just a slightly exaggerated version of the robot glitch-twitch stutter that's been mainstream pop vocalese for the past 10 years or so. Rob Sheffield To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out. Eliot Spitzer 7 Mile is like an Ave. Back in the days it was poppin' in the summer time. Obie Trice ...

Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install

it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines. Nat Friedman Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity. Jane Rule We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living. Tryon Edwards Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans

- from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. David Douglas Duncan Diversifying our tech talent pool is an imperative for the tech sector. More diverse engineers and entrepreneurs will bring about a new type of innovation that Silicon Valley has yet to see. Mitch Kapor I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. Henry Rollins They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink. Tom DeLonge My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. Sam Taylor-Johnson The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. Kelli O'Hara I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets. Matt Flynn I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with co...

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and

adapt with the times. John Prendergast The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s. John Lewis Gaddis People say, 'Oh, God, how devastating to go through a divorce.' Did I wish for this to happen to my family? No. But everyone is healthy; we're moving on with our lives. Heidi Klum Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy. Martin Freeman Becoming a parent expands you as a human being. I am having the most wonderful time. You've married, but the addition of a child strengthens and deepens everything. Kyle MacLachlan When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life. Gail Sheehy The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena. Lee Daniels I'm a good eater and like...

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me -

in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. Sally Mann Hip-hop is the people. What the people are moving toward is what hip-hop is. I think people are moving toward a freer way of thinking. Openness. Erykah Badu I can't work in an environment where it's a stiff hierarchy; that's not my kind of way. Steven Rodney McQueen Tapas is a celebration of life. Jose Andres Everything I've written is based on something that has happened to me or something that I know a great deal about. Peter Benchley It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. Peter Capaldi The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much a...

I don't know the accident of still being married. I was the worst human being.

But we were, I guess, in love. So much has happened to us to bring us together and keep us together. Shelley Berman My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam. John F. Kelly In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But as the days progressed, I learnt to handle them much better. Dhanush A lot of times, I don't want to listen to my stuff, because I'm thinking maybe I didn't do my best. Darius Rucker I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different. Gary Lineker I was never drawn just into fashion. I was drawn into it because I am really interested in serving women and providing women with solutions, trying to figure out what we need and why we need that and why we wear stuff, how it makes us feel. That was al...

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be

challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot. Evander Holyfield Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover. Giotto di Bondone It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. Vincent Canby Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. John Archibald Wheeler I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. Abraham Lincoln