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2,380	66,764	I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.	Jon Secada	teacher
5,139	69,108	In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.	Robert Benchley	travel
6,745	6,681	Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.	Kim Kardashian	best
870	58,649	We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.	Theodore C. Sorensen	religion
9,375	8,256	At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.	John Legend	business
4,730	12,770	My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.	T-Pain	dad
243	60,170	The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.	Sparky Anderson	respect
2,463	67,173	If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.	Bruce Schneier	technology
6,762	17,536	Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.	Jean-Paul Sartre	experience
1,980	62,883	Society is at odds with itself.	Clint Eastwood	society
8,204	72,789	To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.	Bertrand Russell	wisdom
639	72,654	If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.	Carol Ann Duffy	wedding
9,365	59,071	Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!	Abigail Van Buren	religion
6,251	6,832	The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.	Josh Billings	best
4,011	65,824	I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.	J. Michael Straczynski	success
4,540	61,208	Football is a sad game.	George Best	sad
6,781	20,351	But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!	Stephen Covey	family
8,768	9,396	To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.	John Henry Newman	change
8,126	2,389	I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.	Kristen Bell	amazing
355	59,150	How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?	Andrew Sullivan	religion
2,139	5,402	No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.	John Donne	beauty
190	8,394	I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.	Henny Youngman	car
4,559	36,296	Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.	Martha Beck	hope
704	66,358	You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.	Swami Vivekananda	teacher
5,790	32,418	Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?	Jonathan Safran Foer	happiness
2,514	46,237	I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.	Eminem	mom
3,651	40,578	I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.	Donald Trump	learning
2,572	14,819	Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.	Bethenny Frankel	diet
2,000	45,796	The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.	Avicenna	men
8,838	40,380	What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.	Bob Iger	leadership
3,520	74,520	Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.	Ella Wheeler Wilcox	work
10,218	16,147	'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.	Dianne Feinstein	education
10,491	19,417	Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.	Miguel de Unamuno	faith
8,083	59,178	If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.	Denise Mina	religion
5,771	17,667	I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.	Cameron Diaz	experience
8,296	60,002	I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.	Christiane Amanpour	respect
10,788	42,564	My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.	Timothy Leary	life
10,080	68,288	The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.	F. Scott Fitzgerald	time
10,520	49,238	In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.	Jeff Bridges	movies
7,843	44,169	Marriage is the tomb of love.	Giacomo Casanova	marriage
3,790	11,945	My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.	John Bunyan	courage
4,267	4,209	It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.	W. H. Auden	art
4,649	8,442	My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!	Jeff Foxworthy	car
6,957	54,823	Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.	Robert Kennedy	politics
1,820	51,272	I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.	Alice Walker	nature
6,103	23,252	Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.	Sandra Lee	food
4,439	10,666	Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?	Jay-Z	cool
2,820	1,796	I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.	Anna Paquin	alone
6,540	68,052	I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.	Scott Brooks	thankful
843	64,481	Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.	Henry Rollins	strength
3,116	9,471	Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.	Charles Caleb Colton	change
3,204	70,413	We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.	Kim Stanley Robinson	trust
10,981	68,368	I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.	Mitch Hedberg	time
2,334	37,144	The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.	Lisa Loeb	humor
4,803	68,145	Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.	Henry Austin Dobson	time
4,495	53,836	I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.	Whoopi Goldberg	pet
6,461	23,858	When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.	Paul Prudhomme	food
3,968	5,451	In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.	Phil Ochs	beauty
9,634	36,314	If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.	Jim DeMint	hope
9,228	4,880	When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.	Tom T. Hall	attitude
11,698	29,960	It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.	Ansel Adams	government
1,045	65,050	These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.	Jose Canseco	strength
5,134	50,774	I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.	Ellie Goulding	music
8,729	32,481	The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.	Donny Osmond	happiness
9,707	33,306	I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.	Paul Krugman	health
1,365	70,903	Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.	Thomas Moore	truth
1,432	18,837	What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.	Sonia Johnson	failure
10,085	29,341	Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.	Hannah Arendt	good
6,059	9,911	Every day I'm thinking about change.	Miuccia Prada	change
11,077	41,848	The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.	Ben Nighthorse Campbell	legal
986	39,344	The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.	Arthur Miller	knowledge
3,492	66,268	I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.	Lech Walesa	sympathy
1,127	176	At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.	Salvador Dali	age
11,420	17,434	Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.	Tony Robbins	experience
332	3,679	An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.	Andy Warhol	art
3,281	70,497	Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.	John Witherspoon	trust
5,094	39,400	Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.	Raoul Vaneigem	knowledge
6,080	61,837	Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.	Kenneth L. Pike	science
7,388	61,854	What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.	Henry A. Wallace	science
3,705	43,347	Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.	Joseph Addison	love
10,322	36,641	No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.	Josh Radnor	hope
11,693	23,301	I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.	Avril Lavigne	food
11,021	21,413	There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.	Geri Halliwell	famous
5,292	12,925	I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.	Marcia Cross	dad
3,990	69,462	I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.	Lionel Richie	travel
4,387	70,012	Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.	Warren G. Bennis	trust
1,055	57,862	The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.	Andy Goldsworthy	relationship
3,382	8,901	I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.	Haley Reinhart	car
2,809	55,861	Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.	Mitt Romney	positive
485	7,973	Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.	Benjamin Carson	business
5,849	56,885	The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.	Horace	power
274	75,917	Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.	James Patterson	thanksgiving
3,345	55,184	You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.	Bono	politics
5,311	5,577	Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.	Miuccia Prada	beauty
3,413	30,104	And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.	Wole Soyinka	government
2,996	37,177	I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.	Scott Thompson	humor
7,774	48,191	The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.	Alexis Carrel	morning
4,670	52,910	I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.	Anne Frank	peace
11,349	69,266	Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.	Amy Grant	travel
10,948	67,886	I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.	Lily Collins	teen

2,380

66,764

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

Jon Secada

teacher

5,139

69,108

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Robert Benchley

travel

6,745

6,681

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

Kim Kardashian

best

870

58,649

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

Theodore C. Sorensen

religion

9,375

8,256

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

John Legend

business

4,730

12,770

My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.

T-Pain

dad

243

60,170

The only thing I believe is this: A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules.

Sparky Anderson

respect

2,463

67,173

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Bruce Schneier

technology

6,762

17,536

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Jean-Paul Sartre

experience

1,980

62,883

Society is at odds with itself.

Clint Eastwood

society

8,204

72,789

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

wisdom

639

72,654

If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.

Carol Ann Duffy

wedding

9,365

59,071

Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper!

Abigail Van Buren

religion

6,251

6,832

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Josh Billings

best

4,011

65,824

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

J. Michael Straczynski

success

4,540

61,208

Football is a sad game.

George Best

sad

6,781

20,351

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

Stephen Covey

family

8,768

9,396

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

John Henry Newman

change

8,126

2,389

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.

Kristen Bell

amazing

355

59,150

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

religion

2,139

5,402

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

beauty

190

8,394

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

Henny Youngman

car

4,559

36,296

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

Martha Beck

hope

704

66,358

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Swami Vivekananda

teacher

5,790

32,418

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Jonathan Safran Foer

happiness

2,514

46,237

I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Eminem

mom

3,651

40,578

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

Donald Trump

learning

2,572

14,819

Frankly, I don't trust any diet that doesn't allow sugar.

Bethenny Frankel

diet

2,000

45,796

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Avicenna

men

8,838

40,380

What I've really learned over time is that optimism is a very, very important part of leadership.

Bob Iger

leadership

3,520

74,520

Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

work

10,218

16,147

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Dianne Feinstein

education

10,491

19,417

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Miguel de Unamuno

faith

8,083

59,178

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

Denise Mina

religion

5,771

17,667

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Cameron Diaz

experience

8,296

60,002

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

Christiane Amanpour

respect

10,788

42,564

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Timothy Leary

life

10,080

68,288

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

time

10,520

49,238

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Jeff Bridges

movies

7,843

44,169

Marriage is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

marriage

3,790

11,945

My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.

John Bunyan

courage

4,267

4,209

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

art

4,649

8,442

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

Jeff Foxworthy

car

6,957

54,823

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Robert Kennedy

politics

1,820

51,272

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Alice Walker

nature

6,103

23,252

Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

Sandra Lee

food

4,439

10,666

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?

Jay-Z

cool

2,820

1,796

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

Anna Paquin

alone

6,540

68,052

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Scott Brooks

thankful

843

64,481

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Henry Rollins

strength

3,116

9,471

Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

change

3,204

70,413

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

Kim Stanley Robinson

trust

10,981

68,368

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good and we're just wasting time. You don't have to fry them again after all.

Mitch Hedberg

time

2,334

37,144

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road.

Lisa Loeb

humor

4,803

68,145

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Henry Austin Dobson

time

4,495

53,836

I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.

Whoopi Goldberg

pet

6,461

23,858

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Paul Prudhomme

food

3,968

5,451

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.

Phil Ochs

beauty

9,634

36,314

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Jim DeMint

hope

9,228

4,880

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

Tom T. Hall

attitude

11,698

29,960

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Ansel Adams

government

1,045

65,050

These individuals on steroids, does it enhance their career, does it give them a little more strength, a little more stamina, a little more psychological edge? Absolutely. How do you determine what - what their stats would be without steroids? It's impossible to tell.

Jose Canseco

strength

5,134

50,774

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

Ellie Goulding

music

8,729

32,481

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

Donny Osmond

happiness

9,707

33,306

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

health

1,365

70,903

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Thomas Moore

truth

1,432

18,837

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Sonia Johnson

failure

10,085

29,341

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Hannah Arendt

good

6,059

9,911

Every day I'm thinking about change.

Miuccia Prada

change

11,077

41,848

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

legal

986

39,344

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Arthur Miller

knowledge

3,492

66,268

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

Lech Walesa

sympathy

1,127

176

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali

age

11,420

17,434

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Tony Robbins

experience

332

3,679

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

art

3,281

70,497

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation.

John Witherspoon

trust

5,094

39,400

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Raoul Vaneigem

knowledge

6,080

61,837

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.

Kenneth L. Pike

science

7,388

61,854

What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry A. Wallace

science

3,705

43,347

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

love

10,322

36,641

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

Josh Radnor

hope

11,693

23,301

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

Avril Lavigne

food

11,021

21,413

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

Geri Halliwell

famous

5,292

12,925

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Marcia Cross

dad

3,990

69,462

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no reason to smile, because their lives are so difficult.

Lionel Richie

travel

4,387

70,012

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

Warren G. Bennis

trust

1,055

57,862

The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

Andy Goldsworthy

relationship

3,382

8,901

I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

Haley Reinhart

car

2,809

55,861

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

Mitt Romney

positive

485

7,973

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations they are there to make money.

Benjamin Carson

business

5,849

56,885

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

power

274

75,917

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

James Patterson

thanksgiving

3,345

55,184

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Bono

politics

5,311

5,577

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

Miuccia Prada

beauty

3,413

30,104

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

Wole Soyinka

government

2,996

37,177

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

Scott Thompson

humor

7,774

48,191

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

Alexis Carrel

morning

4,670

52,910

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Anne Frank

peace

11,349

69,266

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Amy Grant

travel

10,948

67,886

I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.

Lily Collins

teen