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It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing

with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people. Vivian Campbell I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life. Haruki Murakami But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it. Al Lewis The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy. J. Donald Walters Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons. David Ortiz There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. Ray Charles Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life. Lauren Bacall
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We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of

beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Alain de Botton But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world. Christiane Amanpour I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song. Christine McVie People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them. Jason Statham Poetry is a sort of homecoming. Paul Celan I have no fondness for pure form at all. Peter Porter Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music. Peter Steele
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Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security

system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system. Kay Bailey Hutchison The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. Simone Weil Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. Richard Bach What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. Patty Berg To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. Walter Chrysler Wal-mart... do they like make walls there? Paris Hilton
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here

wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice. Harold Ford, Jr. There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance. George Gillespie I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. Miguel de Cervantes Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms. Joseph McCabe I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York. Janice Dickinson Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen. Esther Williams With The Simpsons you can go back to work with a keen heart. Joe Strummer
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Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself

and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited. Ben McKenzie If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. Frank Stella There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. Michel de Montaigne A man's character is his guardian divinity. Heraclitus I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people. Keanu Reeves Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. Richard Ford
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I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.'

I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it. Marc Jacobs Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words. Deborah Bull By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision. Bruno Walter I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity. Eva Longoria It's okay to laugh in the bedroom so long as you don't point. Will Durst We love because it's the only true adventure. Nikki Giovanni Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. William Blake
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You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous

amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too. Anthony A. Williams It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart. Tom Selleck When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention. Mark Shields Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. Edgard Varese I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old. George Canning Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. Stuart Chase Each year is a new year. Tim Buckley
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It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact,

mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. Tom Wolfe Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it. Jean Genet Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death. Rupert Holmes When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty. Earl Wilson We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. Robert Hall When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. Helen Rowland
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Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it

doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist. Jane Campion Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject. Dave Winer As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee. Bernard Barton Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. Alice Meynell Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. Bill Frist It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. Bruce Schneier Program testing can be used to show the presen...
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The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were

assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! Arthur Hertzberg Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life. Connie Mack My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie. Steve Nash Because usually in the past when I was in a big band, that was all I did. Kathy Valentine Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. Honore de Balzac There are people worse off than me. I've had a very long run. I'm fine really. I'm just old. Barry Took In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde. Powell Clayton
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Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was

no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion. Natan Sharansky The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. Angela Carter Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts. Robert Smith All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. Will Durant I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun. George Eads I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me. Jeremy London
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A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day

with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music. Charlie Daniels There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas. Anne Morrow Lindbergh While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place. James Green Somerville Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy. Catherine McCormack It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. Suzanne Fields Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinne...
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Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other

software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent. Miguel de Icaza Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character. Gary Ryan Blair When people say 'love to hate', they actually mean 'love to be appalled by' - if they truly hated them, they'd never repeat a catch phrase. Chris Morris I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing. Eddie Bernice Johnson He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. Aeschylus I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain. Jeff Gordon We wanted the language to feel fresh, fun, and rock solid. James Frank
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We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me.

I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up. Charles Evers In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. Harold Coffin When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world. Jeremy Sumpter Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. Marcel Marceau I'm an actor and this is a role I'm playing. But people can get wacky. Dean Cain It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. Hippocrates It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq. Douglas Hurd
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This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when

clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity. William Jennings Bryan It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.' Jacqueline McKenzie Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. Mikhail Gorbachev I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. Richard Linklater I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer. James Galway When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about. Jamal Lewis Lessons are not given, they are taken. Cesare Pavese
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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
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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...
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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
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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 ...
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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
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Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention

concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. Robert Hall And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls. Lindsay Wagner We went to - I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting. Giovanni Ribisi I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. Theodore Roosevelt But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service. John Galliano An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. Conrad...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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