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8,868 | 60,314 | You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment. | Lucy Liu | respect |
464 | 66,117 | I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!' | Nicole Scherzinger | success |
6,463 | 55,010 | Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | politics |
3,113 | 4,296 | Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic. | Jerry Saltz | art |
10,050 | 64,746 | We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. | David Brainerd | strength |
9,876 | 47,306 | When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans. | Ron Paul | money |
8,541 | 15,007 | Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. | Anais Nin | dreams |
3,104 | 64,341 | I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person. | Michelle Wie | sports |
756 | 1,985 | Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes. | Patricia Ireland | alone |
3,053 | 738 | We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. | George Saunders | age |
8,886 | 73,409 | As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. | Edward Levi | wisdom |
9,514 | 48,929 | They put me on the shift where they thought I could do the least harm, midnight to eight in the morning. Although the hours were lousy, they were perfect for an apprentice reporter. | Andrea Mitchell | morning |
924 | 2,738 | I thoroughly enjoyed working on Enemy of the State. Tony Scott is an important director, and has an amazing ability to express himself, and he doesn't do it in musical terms , he does it in emotional terms. I got along really well with him. | Trevor Rabin | amazing |
9,204 | 62,023 | I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art. | Richard Rogers | science |
9,334 | 31,850 | There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. | Epictetus | happiness |
8,920 | 26,892 | Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. | Euripides | future |
10,254 | 57,217 | True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. | Milan Kundera | power |
9,166 | 2,644 | My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light. | Linda Hamilton | amazing |
9,425 | 694 | My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work. | Iain Duncan Smith | age |
2,117 | 37,988 | The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction. | William Trevor | imagination |
7,046 | 50,878 | I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. | Joan Jett | music |
3,729 | 21,505 | When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that. | Jill Scott | famous |
6,916 | 57,675 | People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point. | Laura Linney | relationship |
6,139 | 66,442 | If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher. | Dave Chappelle | teacher |
1,325 | 58,130 | Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that. | Matt Cameron | relationship |
837 | 53,135 | While conscience is our friend, all is at peace however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind. | Mary Wortley Montagu | peace |
3,149 | 16,047 | We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man. | Lyndon B. Johnson | education |
4,711 | 43,167 | Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. | Marilyn Monroe | love |
3,918 | 58,638 | It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words? | Dwight L. Moody | religion |
7,957 | 72,265 | War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. | Lewis Mumford | war |
6,678 | 22,129 | A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. | David Hume | fear |
778 | 21,878 | I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. | Oprah Winfrey | fear |
7,598 | 54,893 | I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. | Sydney Pollack | politics |
6,730 | 19,116 | It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects. | Orson Pratt | faith |
7,630 | 2,983 | How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. | Marcus Aurelius | anger |
8,690 | 50,893 | At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music. | Layne Staley | music |
9,080 | 41,494 | I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it. | Tony Williams | learning |
3,597 | 36,746 | I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society. | Yani Tseng | hope |
2,679 | 2,194 | I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home. | Cathy Guisewite | amazing |
9,273 | 48,097 | There is nothing so habit-forming as money. | Don Marquis | money |
79 | 42,978 | Absence - that common cure of love. | Lord Byron | love |
8,539 | 17,112 | From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. | Mikhail Bakunin | equality |
10,415 | 45,242 | I have always supported measures and principles and not men. | Davy Crockett | men |
1,264 | 70,287 | When I think it's good not to say the truth, I don't say anything. I don't like actors in general, they lie, they are liars, trust me. | Melanie Laurent | trust |
7,366 | 2,203 | The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun. | Ricky Williams | amazing |
8,923 | 62,271 | I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror. | Sarah Zettel | science |
7,495 | 59,144 | It's fun being in Islamic countries, to know there's only one religion. There's order. You wear a burqa. There's no choice. People are happy with that. | Prince | religion |
1,928 | 15,123 | Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. | Paracelsus | dreams |
4,400 | 51,114 | Music is hugely important to me. | Rashida Jones | music |
11,033 | 48,233 | To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife. | Angelina Jolie | morning |
5,856 | 73,717 | I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. | Brendan Behan | women |
1,113 | 23,125 | The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food. | Cyril Connolly | food |
5,081 | 62,234 | It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed. | Andrew Greeley | science |
5,969 | 57,970 | We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. | Vicente Fox | relationship |
3,076 | 1,084 | When everything is lonely I can be my best friend. | Conor Oberst | alone |
10,413 | 75,733 | Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible. | T. D. Jakes | easter |
6,802 | 71,541 | Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | war |
1,567 | 12,309 | I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime. | Glenn Beck | dad |
2,825 | 71,440 | The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. | Sarah Bernhardt | truth |
4,221 | 17,820 | It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. | Aneurin Bevan | experience |
6,843 | 49,308 | The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent. | Billy Joel | movies |
6,297 | 3,247 | The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.' | Billy Gardell | anger |
9,850 | 46,082 | It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. | Julius Caesar | men |
6,773 | 12,038 | Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought. | William L. Jenkins | courage |
3,480 | 74,853 | Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. | Carl Jung | work |
11,671 | 4,817 | Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them. | Arthur Erickson | attitude |
3,733 | 27,548 | Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love. | Jo Nesbo | future |
11,253 | 70,263 | Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide. | Naveen Jain | trust |
1,763 | 37,139 | I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow. | Ian MacKaye | humor |
10,438 | 75,487 | It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. | Caroline Kennedy | christmas |
1,254 | 28,353 | Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. | Honore de Balzac | god |
3,240 | 68,028 | I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects. | David Brainerd | thankful |
753 | 52,733 | Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority. | Vic Snyder | patriotism |
10,613 | 37,835 | Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. | Charlie Simpson | imagination |
5,157 | 24,349 | There is no such thing as part freedom. | Nelson Mandela | freedom |
848 | 9,261 | There is nothing so stable as change. | Bob Dylan | change |
11,095 | 69,404 | I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there. | Brendan Fraser | travel |
9,790 | 16,271 | Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race. | Jonathan Sacks | education |
4,637 | 57,328 | Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more. | Gwen Stefani | power |
8,444 | 65,360 | If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. | Henry Ford | success |
7,364 | 53,691 | Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy. | Suzanne Fields | peace |
5,594 | 70,659 | For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. | Maya Angelou | truth |
8,153 | 24,203 | I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration. | William P. Young | forgiveness |
11,112 | 58,885 | No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion. | George Whitefield | religion |
3,183 | 12,172 | My father loved people, children and pets. | Tony Visconti | dad |
7,551 | 69,974 | Trust is the first step to love. | Munshi Premchand | trust |
9,344 | 55,128 | Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. | Paul Valery | politics |
3,672 | 54,771 | I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. | Zona Gale | poetry |
8,035 | 24,500 | I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. | Stephen Fry | freedom |
3,795 | 9,538 | So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. | Jose Mourinho | change |
7,547 | 56,139 | If Ralph Nader runs, President Bush is going to be re-elected, and if Ralph Nader doesn't run, President Bush is going to be re-elected. We're going to run on the president's strong and principled leadership and his positive agenda for a second term. | Ed Gillespie | positive |
819 | 57,091 | If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day. | Julianna Margulies | power |
11,299 | 51,134 | Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me. | Levon Helm | music |
5,897 | 31,585 | Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. | Queen Victoria | great |
8,423 | 31,656 | Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. | Edmund Spenser | great |
8,892 | 19,754 | You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven. | Charles Simeon | faith |
10,472 | 36,747 | I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. | Jayson Blair | hope |
2,680 | 119 | Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are. | Muhammad Ali | age |
6,829 | 59,490 | A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. | William Hazlitt | respect |
8,562 | 72,025 | There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut. | Martin Scorsese | war |